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).

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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.)