Medieval Modal Logic & Science: Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on its Impossibility Without a First Cause - Brossura

Trundle, Robert

 
9780761813989: Medieval Modal Logic & Science: Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on its Impossibility Without a First Cause
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ISBN 10: 0761813985 ISBN 13: 9780761813989
Casa editrice: University Press of America, 1999

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Medieval Modal Logic & Science uses modal reasoning in a new way to fortify the relationships between science, ethics, and politics. Robert C. Trundle accomplishes this by analyzing the role of modal logic in the work of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, then applying these themes to contemporary issues. He incorporates Augustine's ideas involving thought and consciousness, and Aquinas's reasoning to a First Cause. The author also deals with Augustine's ties to Aristotelian modalities of thought regarding science and logic, reassessing the commonly held belief in Augustine's Platonism to not be a mistake as much as a simplistic view of his philosophy. Trundle links contemporary issues in epistemology, morality, theology, and logic, making several useful connections between ancient and medieval studies in modal logic and modern concerns. These applications of modal theory illuminate many puzzles in the works of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Whitehead, and Kuhn.

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Robert C. Trundle is Professor of Philosophy at Northern Kentucky University.

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Editore
University Press of America
Data di pubblicazione
1999
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0761813985
ISBN 13 
9780761813989
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
208
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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