George Boole (1815–1864) is rightly known as a logician, the author of an algebra logic, even if he did not conceive it quite in same way we know it. The calculus on classes and propositions, that set out to be equivalent, were at core his logic. After more than twenty centuries where logic was associated analysis language, handled for first time with mathematical symbols. However, Boole’s one ...

50 years ago, in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” W. V. Quine (1953) launched a discussion of philosophical notions of analyticity and the a priori. On this occasion, I want to try to arrive at a judgment about the upshot of that discussion. I will not engage in exegesis. I do not think of Quine’s writings as sacred texts or as existing independently of the discussions of others then and now. These ...

Available research on the relationship between organizational culture (OC) and knowledge management success (KMS) has never demonstrated two points which are really critical issues in China, one is the specialized effect of process-orientation dimension of OC on KMS, and the other is the mediating role of knowledge sharing between OC and KMS. By adopting methods of logical reasoning and literat...

This article contributes to explaining the rise of logical empiricism in mid-twentieth century (North) America and a better understanding American philosophy science before dominance empiricism. We show that, contrary number existing histories, was already distinct subfield philosophy, one with its own approaches issues, even empiricists arrived America. It form speculative concern for metaphys...

Abstract In this article the authors identify and analyse points of agreement disagreement between Michael Ayers Charles Travis, starting from their views on ‘things before us’. The then try to spell out what separates these philosophers in matters concerning perception, knowledge language. spite both being self-professed realists, equally critical conceptualism representationalism, Ayers’ empi...