
Oskar Becker, On the Logic of Modalities (1930): Translation, Commentary and Analysis
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The commentary provides an in-depth analysis of all of Becker's important contributions, both from a philosophical and logical perspective, making it a very useful book for scholars in both philosophy and logic.
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"The book should appeal to a wide audience - both to readers engaged with the technical aspects of modal logic, and to those more interested in its conceptual foundations and philosophical implications. By bridging formal results with broader interpretative insights, it offers something valuable to specialists and generalists alike." (Xavier Parent, zbMATH 1566.03008, 2025)
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Pierluigi Minari is professor of Logic at the University of Firenze and guest professor at the Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia. His main research interests include non-classical logics, structural proof theory, theories of operations (combinatory logic and lambda calculus), and the history of logic as well. He is the author of Semantic Investigations on Intermediate Propositional Logics (Bibliopolis 1989) and Introduction to Logic (with A. Cantini, Mondadori Education 2009) and of many research papers in international logic journals, among which are the Journal of Symbolic Logic , Studia Logica , and Archive for Mathematical Logic .
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