Sunday, March 1, 2015

LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY - by Avi Sion

LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY:
A Compendium.

Avi Sion,  Ph. D.



First published, 2013.

Abstract


Logical Philosophy: A Compendium brings together five works by Avi Sion published in the years 2002-06, namely: Phenomenology (2003), Volition and Allied Causal Concepts (2004), Meditations (2006), Ruminations (2005), and Buddhist Illogic (2002).

These works together define what may be termed ‘Logical Philosophy’, i.e. philosophical discourse distinguished by its steadfast reliance on inductive and deductive logic to resolve epistemological and ontological issues.

Note that the works are placed in a logical rather than chronological order. This collection does not include work done on The Logic of Causation in the same period (published in 2003, 2005).


Buy it or read it online


All of Avi Sion’s published books can be purchased at Amazon.com (in paperback or kindle/.mobi form), and at Lulu.com (in hardcover, paperback or e-book/.epub form), as well as other online stores.

They can also be read online free of charge, chapter by chapter, at www.TheLogician.net and, in '3D flipbook' format, at www.AviSionBooks.com, as well as in Google Books and other Internet locations. They are also available in many university and public libraries.


Contents in brief


PHENOMENOLOGY: Basing Knowledge on Appearance

VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS

MEDITATIONS: A Spiritual Logbook

RUMINATIONS: Sundry notes and essays on Logic

BUDDHIST ILLOGIC: A Critical Analysis of Nagarjuna’s Arguments


Contents in more detail


PHENOMENOLOGY: Basing Knowledge on Appearance
1.         What, Why and How
2.         Organizing Principles
3.         Experiences and Abstractions
4.         Conceptualization
5.         The Self
6.         Additional Topics
7.         The Active Role of Logic
8.         Epistemological Issues in Mathematics
9.         Theology Without Prejudice
Appendices
Figures
References

VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS
1.         Basic Causal Relations
2.         Interactions between Volition and Causation
3.         Further Analysis of Volition
4.         Consciousness and Responsibility
5.         Influence and Freedom
6.         Further Analysis of Influence
7.         The Workings of Volition
8.         Volition and the Special Sciences
9.         Will, Velleity and Whim
10.       Affections and Appetites
11.       Complications of Influence
12.       Urges and Impulses
13.       The Quasi-Purposive in Nature
14.       Concepts of Evolution
15.       More about Evolution
16.       The Self
17.       Some Topics in Deontology
18.       More Topics in Deontology
Appendices
References

MEDITATIONS: A Spiritual Logbook.
  1. Some Theoretical Considerations
  2. Understanding The Self
  3. Some Behavioral Disciplines
  4. Some Sitting Meditations

RUMINATIONS: Sundry notes and essays on Logic
1.         About the Laws of Thought
2.         About Induction
3.         About Words
4.         About Formal Logic
5.         About Paradoxes
6.         About “Modern Logic”
7.         About Cognitive Development
8.         About Causal Logic
9.         About Negation
10.       Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation
11.       Islamic Logic
12.       Logical Aspects of Foucault's "Archeology"
13.       Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault
14.       Bolzano's Semantics Concepts

BUDDHIST ILLOGIC: A Critical Analysis of Nagarjuna’s Arguments
Foreword
1.         The tetralemma
2.         Neither real nor unreal
3.         Nagarjuna’s use of dilemma
4.         The subject-predicate relation
5.         Percepts and concepts
6.         Motion and rest
7.         Causality
8.         Co-dependence
9.         Karmic law
10.       God and creation
11.       Self or soul
12.       Self-knowledge
Afterword: Not ‘empty logic’, but empty of logic
Appendices:
1.         Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s work
2.         Brief glossary of some basic concepts


(These five books can also be purchased separately.)


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