If A, Then B: How the World Discovered Logic
by Michael Shenefelt, Heidi White
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While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place.Logic is more than the work of logicians alone. show more Its discoveries have survived only because logicians have also been able to find a willing audience, an show lessTags
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Michael Shenefelt started teaching philosophy in 1978, after having worked as a newspaper reporter in rural Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University, where he also taught courses in philosophy and intellectual history. He currently teaches the history of philosophy and Western civilization in the General Studies Program of New show more York University. show less
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