The Form of Truth: Hegel’s Philosophical Logic

Elena Ficara

Published by De Gruyter 2021

The Form of Truth

Hegel’s Philosophical Logic

Elena Ficara

Volume 145 in the series Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703719

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About this book

This book is a consideration of Hegel’s view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view’s relevance for contemporary philosophical logic. The literature on Hegel’s logic is fairly rich. The attention to contemporary philosophical logic places the present research closer to those works interested in the link between Hegel’s thought and analytical philosophy (Stekeler-Weithofer 1992 and 2019, Berto 2005, Rockmore 2005, Redding 2007, Nuzzo 2010 (ed.), Koch 2014, Brandom 2014, 1-15, Pippin 2016, Moyar 2017, Quante & Mooren 2018 among others). In this context, one particularity of this book consists in focusing on something that has been generally underrated in the literature: the idea that, for Hegel as well as for Aristotle and many other authors (including Frege), logic is the study of the forms of truth, i.e. the forms that our thought can (or ought to) assume in searching for truth. In this light, Hegel’s thinking about logic is a fundamental reference point for anyone interested in a philosophical foundation of logic.

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Elena Ficara, Paderborn University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviated References and Citation Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Logic
1. Terminological preliminaries: Das Logische and die Logik, Verstandeslogik and Vernunftlogik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2. What does it mean to say that “logic coincides with metaphysics”? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. What kind of logic is Hegel’s logic? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
II. Form
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. Hegel on the history of formal logic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. Hegel on logical forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
6. Is Hegel’s logic formal? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
III. Truth
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
7. Truth-bearers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
8. The meaning of “true” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
9. Hegel’s concept of truth in contemporary perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
IV. Validity
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
10. Dialectic from Zeno to Kant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
11. Hegel’s own account of dialectical inferences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
12. What is dialectic? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
V. Contradiction
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
13. Conjunction [Vereinigung] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
14. Negation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
15. The Law of Non-Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
16. Hegelian paraconsistentism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Philosophers of logic, philosophers of history, libraries, institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 226
Keywords: Hegel; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Hegel’s dialectics; philosophical logic; history of logic

eBook

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110703719

Hardcover

Published: November 23, 2020
ISBN: 9783110703658

Paperback

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110996821