Logic in Religious Discourse

Schumann, Andrew (Hrsg.):
Logic in Religious Discourse / Andrew Schumann (ed.). - Frankfurt ; Paris ; Lancaster ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2010. - ca. 286 S.
ISBN 978-3-86838-061-3
EUR 89,00 (Printausg.)
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DDC: 201.6160
-- Angekündigt für Januar 2010 --

Beschreibung
Knocking on Heaven's Door is the oldest human dream that seems unrealized still. Religious discourse does show the road, but it requires a blind faith in return. In this book logicians try to hear Heaven's Call and to analyze religious discourse. As a result, the notion of religious logic as a part of philosophical logic is introduced. Its tasks are (1) to construct consistent logical systems formalizing religious reasoning that at first sight seems inconsistent (this research is fulfilled within the limits of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and many-valued logic), (2) to carry out an illocutionary analysis of religious discourse (this research is fulfilled in frames of illocutionary logics), and (3) to formalize Ancient and Medieval logical theories used in the theology of an appropriate religion (they could be studied within the limits of unconventional logics, such as non-monotonic logics, non-well-founded logics, etc.). [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Andrew Schumann: Preface: Religious Logic as a Part of Philosophical Logic. 10
1. Subhash Kak: Logic in Indian Thought. 20
2. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya: On Two Questions of the New Logic of India. 34
3. Dilipkumar Mohanta: The Use of Four-Cornered Negation and the Denial of the Law of Excluded Middle in Nāgārjuna’s Logic. 44
4. Fabien Schang: A Plea for Epistemic Truth: Jaina Logic from a Many-Valued Perspective. 54
5. Jerzy Pogonowski: Remarks on Ancient Chinese Logic. 84
6. Avi Sion: Talmudic Hermeneutics. 104
7. Francesco Bottin: Ockham and Oratio Mentalis. 132
8. Petr Dvořák: Analogy in Thomism. 164
9. Paweł Rojek: Towards a Logic of Negative Theology. 192
10. Sara L. Uckelman: Reasoning about the Trinity: a Modern Formalization of a Medieval System of Trinitarian Logic. 216
11. Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe: Late Medieval Trinitarian Syllogistics: From the Theological Debates to a Logical Textbook. 240
12. Timothy Knepper: Ineffability Performance: Critique and Call. 262

Herausgeber
ANDREW SCHUMANN (Андрэй Николаевич Шуман [Belarusian], Андрей Николаевич Шуман [Russian]) is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science Methodology at the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus. His research focuses on logic and philosophy of science with an emphasis on non-well-founded phenomena: self-references and circularity. He contributed mainly to such research areas as reasoning under uncertainty, probability reasoning, non-Archimedean mathematics, as well as their applications to cognitive science.

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