Epistemology is the discipline which analyzes the limits of knowledge while asserting universal principles for any particular discipline. Metaphysics is the discipline which attempts to discern the essence of what really exists while asserting particular means for the implementation of universals. In a sense, epistemology and metaphysics are companions. Epistemology is theoretical while metaphy...

The conjunction of process and reality is familiar from the original theory of A. N. Whitehead and the subsequent development of process philosophy and metaphysics by Nicholas Rescher. Classical logic, however, is either ignored or stated to be inappropriate to a discussion of process. In this paper, I will show that the value of a process view of reality can be enhanced by reference to a new, ...

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...

St. Anselm of Canterbury’s place in both the history of philosophy and the history of theology is firmly recognized, but his place in the history of logic is often overlooked. We argue that this is primarily the result of four factors: (1) the primary propagator of Anselm’s logical works in the 20th century, D.P. Henry, used a system of logic unfamiliar and objectionable to most mainstream logi...

1 considered the founder of modern philosophy, was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, (which today is Kaliningrad in Russia) on April 22, 1724. He came from a Protestant family of Pietists. Kant attended the University of Königsberg and became an instructor at the university. For fifteen years he lectured and wrote on various topics in metaphysics, logic, natural sciences: physics, astronomy, ge...

This workbook of etudes offers a collection experimental texts for communal dialogue and discovery that crosses multiple academic disciplines, including: foundations physics, metaphysics, theoretical biology, semiotics, cognitive science, linguistics, phenomenology, logic & mathematics, poetry theology. Each etude probes limits, horizons boundaries by implicitly bring into relation foundational...

Commentators regularly attribute to Frege realist, idealist, and quietist responses metaphysical questions concerning the abstract objects he calls ‘thoughts’. But despite decades of effort, evidence offered on behalf these attributions remains unconvincing. I argue that deliberately avoids commitment any positions, as part a separatist policy motivated by fact logic is epistemologically autono...

It is difficult to wander far in contemporary metaphysics without bumping into talk of possible worlds. And reference to possible worlds is not confined to metaphysics. It can be found in contemporary epistemology and ethics, and has even found its way into linguistics and decision theory. But what are those possible worlds, the entities to which theorists in these disciplines all appeal? Call ...

Abstract The aim of this article is to clarify the critical role Hegel's early logic, through an assessment dialectical process sublation [ Aufhebung ] determinations finite thinking at stake within its exposition. I want show that dialectical-critical work logic has a speculative meaning for Hegel, thereby displaying inward correspondence between and aspects philosophical activity. By pointing...