Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today’s environmental crisis, in particular the thirst fo
Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias is intended to give an overview of the logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. early third century A D). Since much of what might be called Alexander's l
Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok is an original, pioneering, and richly illustrated work that discusses hitherto unaddressed features of manuscript traditions o
History of Logic and Semantics offers a collection of studies on the development of the Aristotelian and terminist approaches to language, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx’s economic theory in Capital and Hegel’s Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the wo
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade a
This book analyzes the discovery of Chinese logic as a paradigmatic case of the epistemic shifts that have shaped interpretations of China’s intellectual heritage. Reconstructing the transcultural gen
This book examines the medieval tradition of Aristotelian logic from two perspectives. The first examines the ways in which Latin and Arabic authors went about their work in medieval logic, and how it
Relational Inferences are a Well-Known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth
The specialized essays in this collection study whether non-Aristotelian traditions of ancient logic had a role for medieval logicians. Special attention is given to Stoic logic and semantics, and to
In Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony Alan Shandro traces the emergence of the concept of hegemony in Lenin's engagement with the concrete characteristics of the class struggle in Russia and thereby clar
In Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy, edited by Admir Skodo, an array of historical and philosophical chapters decenter the idea of forma
Conventional wisdom has it that the port town of Banten on the western tip of Java, plummeted from prosperity to poverty over the course of the century. Japanese historian Ota, whose main interests ar
Cultural travel and migrancy examines how people in West Java use modern media such as radio, television, and cassettes to give expression to their thoughts and feelings about problems of contemporary
This study of the interpretations of Aristotle’s Categories in the thirteenth century provides an introduction to some main themes of medieval philosophical logic and to Duns Scotus’s subtle and origi
The Making of A Modern Art World explores the institutionalisation and legitimisation of guohua in Republican Shanghai, aiming to reconstruct the operational logic and the stratified hierarchy of Shan
Richard Kilvington’s commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (14th century) offers a unique perspective of argumentation by applying concepts and terminology from the fields of logic and physics
In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java’s Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dance in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an aut
Scholars in the arts, the humanities, and the sciences offer a multi-faceted investigation of the fundamental human experience of temporality—from reproductive politics and temporal logic to music and
In this multi-volume encyclopedic work, prestigious Paduan scholar of logic and scientific methodology Zabarella (1533-89) sought to collect all the issues that came under the heading of natural philo
Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw school of philosophy with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy, says van der Schaar, and his unique method o
Themes from Ontology, Mind and Logic is a tribute to Peter Simons’s formidable contribution to contemporary philosophy. With themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology, it offers insights into s
In Salvation in Writing, William Wright derives from Calvin’s theology of justification and sanctification a dialectical logic for writing truth that both rivals and mends those of Hegel and Derrida.
This selection of research papers written by Hans Kamp presents the core of his scientific research on natural language semantics and its relation to logic, philosophy and linguistics. Arranged in six
Hegel s "Science of Logic" is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest works of European philosophy. However, its contribution to arguably the most important philosophical problem, Pyrrhonian scepti
Moczanow (logic and methodology of science, Rzeszow U., Poland) points out an unbridgeable gap between the notion of quantificational truth expressed by German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Fr
Jin (d.1984) was an influential philosopher in China. Trained in the U.S., Jin developed a theory of logic, centered around the problem of induction, and utilizing Chinese terms. Zinda (U. Nurnberg-Er
Considering the Panama Canal as an artificial strait, this book will let legal logic yield to historical and geographic experience by recasting the Panama Canal’s environment as the product of three e
The present volume makes available for the first time the earliest translation of Aristotle into a Semitic language. It will open the way to a fuller understanding of the transformation of Greek logic
Amsterdam is one of the breeding grounds for the formal study of logic and language, for dynamic semantics, and for the study of questions and answers. This book brings together work on the topic as i
Begun in 1997 as economic crises and changes in global business affected more people of the study area of Java, the research program which inspired these eight papers address the increasing breakdown
This volume offers a new approach in Islamic hermeneutics and the understanding of Qur’anic exegesis, Muslim dialectical theology and the appropriation of Peripatetical logic in the Arabic world. It r
In the late colonial period (1870-1942), the Outer Islands of Indonesia formed a dynamic area. The economic development of these islands outside Java is analysed in this book by focusing on the enormo
A collection of original articles by a dozen scholars on the work of the influential 14th-century philosopher John Buridan, this book extends Buridan's reputation in logic to metaphysics and natural p
In this book, the medieval development of Aristotle's theory of the modal syllogistic is studied for the first time. The book shows how this previously ignored part of medieval logic may give new insi
The study provides a reappraisal of the controversy over the value of logic in theology in the eleventh century, which has for a long time been a theme central to the historiography of early medieval
The Javanese realms of Surakarta and Yogyakarta in Central Java were of prime importance in the politics of the Netherlands Indies, located, as they were, at the heart of the Dutch colonial state. Thi
Based on contrasting characterization and narrative logic between the central Huwawa episode and the remaining material for the earliest Akkadian Gilgamesh, this book challenges the accepted notion th
The contributions to this volume, written by social scientists and historians, emphasize the 'societal' aspects of health care, and not the more technical aspects. They highlight the cultural, politic
