Ebook: George Boole: Selected Manuscripts on Logic and its Philosophy

George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (1947) and "An investigation of the laws of thought" (1954). But at various times he wrote manuscript essays, especially after the publication of the second book; several were intended for a non-technical work, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was not able to complete. This volume contains an edited selection which not only relates them to Boole's publications and the historical context of his time, but also describes their strange history of family, followers and scholars have treid to confect an edition. The book will appeal to logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and those interested in the histories of the corresponding subjects; and also students of the early Victorian Britain in which they were written.

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George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (1947) and "An investigation of the laws of thought" (1954). But at various times he wrote manuscript essays, especially after the publication of the second book; several were intended for a non-technical work, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was not able to complete. This volume contains an edited selection which not only relates them to Boole's publications and the historical context of his time, but also describes their strange history of family, followers and scholars have treid to confect an edition. The book will appeal to logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and those interested in the histories of the corresponding subjects; and also students of the early Victorian Britain in which they were written.

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George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (1947) and "An investigation of the laws of thought" (1954). But at various times he wrote manuscript essays, especially after the publication of the second book; several were intended for a non-technical work, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was not able to complete. This volume contains an edited selection which not only relates them to Boole's publications and the historical context of his time, but also describes their strange history of family, followers and scholars have treid to confect an edition. The book will appeal to logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and those interested in the histories of the corresponding subjects; and also students of the early Victorian Britain in which they were written.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-lxiv
Front Matter....Pages lxv-lxv
The Nature of Logic....Pages 1-12
Elementary Treatise on Logic not Mathematical including Philosophy of Mathematical Reasoning....Pages 13-41
[Extracts from a Notebook]....Pages 42-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Prolegomena....Pages 51-62
On the Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Logic and on the Philosophical Interpretation of Its Methods and Processes....Pages 63-104
[Preparatory Notes]....Pages 105-111
General Summary....Pages 112-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
[Preface]....Pages 119-120
Table of Contents....Pages 121-122
The Philosophy of Reasoning....Pages 123-125
Logic....Pages 126-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
On Belief in Its Relation to the Understanding....Pages 157-161
The Philosophical Idea of Freedom....Pages 162-163
Note [to Aristotle]....Pages 164-166
Philosophy of Mathematics....Pages 167-178
[Various fragments, apparently late]....Pages 179-190
Letters to Cayley, Lubbock and Penrose....Pages 191-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-236

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George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (1947) and "An investigation of the laws of thought" (1954). But at various times he wrote manuscript essays, especially after the publication of the second book; several were intended for a non-technical work, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was not able to complete. This volume contains an edited selection which not only relates them to Boole's publications and the historical context of his time, but also describes their strange history of family, followers and scholars have treid to confect an edition. The book will appeal to logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and those interested in the histories of the corresponding subjects; and also students of the early Victorian Britain in which they were written.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-lxiv
Front Matter....Pages lxv-lxv
The Nature of Logic....Pages 1-12
Elementary Treatise on Logic not Mathematical including Philosophy of Mathematical Reasoning....Pages 13-41
[Extracts from a Notebook]....Pages 42-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Prolegomena....Pages 51-62
On the Foundations of the Mathematical Theory of Logic and on the Philosophical Interpretation of Its Methods and Processes....Pages 63-104
[Preparatory Notes]....Pages 105-111
General Summary....Pages 112-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
[Preface]....Pages 119-120
Table of Contents....Pages 121-122
The Philosophy of Reasoning....Pages 123-125
Logic....Pages 126-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
On Belief in Its Relation to the Understanding....Pages 157-161
The Philosophical Idea of Freedom....Pages 162-163
Note [to Aristotle]....Pages 164-166
Philosophy of Mathematics....Pages 167-178
[Various fragments, apparently late]....Pages 179-190
Letters to Cayley, Lubbock and Penrose....Pages 191-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-236
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