Logic on the Track of Social Change
Published on 28. December 1995
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-19-823530-9 (ISBN)
Description
The book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them.
Reviews / Votes
The technical scholarship throughout the book is impeccable, and this work deserves careful study. * Mind, vol. 110, no. 440 * an ambitious, impressive and engaging study. * Mind, vol. 110, no. 440 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823530-9 (9780198235309)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Peter K. Schotch has been Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University since 1982. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 publications in philosophical logic.
Bryson Brown is the author of various articles on philosophical logic and the philosophy of science.
Bryson Brown is the author of various articles on philosophical logic and the philosophy of science.
Author
Centennial Chair in the Liberal ArtsCentennial Chair in the Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge, AlbertaAssociate Professor of Philosophy, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
Professor of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Contributions
, St Francis Xavier University
Content
Introduction ; What Rules Amount to in Practice: A Theory with a Definition ; Logical Preliminaries to a Formal Theory of Rules ; The Logic of Rules ; Who Controls the Marriage Decision? Stone and Macfarlane: Opposed Accounts ; Marx and Macfarlane: On Peasant and Capitalist Ownership in England ; Justice in hte Marxist Dialectic of Rules ; A Rules-Analysis, Following Foucault, of the Birth of Clinical Medicine ; The Opposition, Intended or Real, of the US Constitution to Factions or Political Parties ; The Abolition of the British Slave Trade ; Logic and its Application to Social Change: Our Work in Retrospect and Prospect