SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

Polymath Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned mathematics, symbolic logic, philosophy, biology and psychology. Born in ...