Aftermath of Syllogism

Marco Sgarbi is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.Matteo Cosci is a postdoctoral researcher at the Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy, currently working within the ERC project "Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular: Rethinking Renaissance and Early-Modern Intellectual History (c. 1400–c. 1650)".

• 1. Introduction, Marco Sgarbi and Matteo Cosci (University Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy)2. Existence and Modality in Avicenna’s Syllogistic, Allan Bäck (Kutztown University, USA)3. Ideology and “Reception” in Renaissance Logic, Alan R. Perreiah (University of Kentucky, USA)4. Syllogistic and Formal Reasoning: the Cartesian Critique, Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney, Australia)5. Hobbes and the Syllogism, Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida, USA)6. Syllogism in the Port-Royal Logic, Russel Wahl (Idaho State University, USA)7. Locke and Syllogism. The “Perception grounded” Logic of the Way of Ideas, Davide Poggi (Università di Verona, Italy)8. Leibniz’s Transformation of the Theory of the Syllogism into an Algebra of Concepts, Wolfgang Lenzen (Universität Osnabrück, Germany)9. Kant’s False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures in Its Intellectual Context, Alberto Vanzo (University of Warwick, UK)10. “Everything Rational is a Syllogism”: Hegel’s Logic of Inference, Georg Sans, SJ (Hochschule für Philosophie, München, Germany)Index

I enjoyed reading this book. It highlights a part of the theory's history that is less well known, and in some sense it is a history of a decline after the heights it reached in the 14th century. But it is nevertheless an interesting history, which sees the theory playing a somewhat different role, not as a formal logic, but as a theory of reasoning … I recommend this volume to anyone interested in the history of the theory of syllogisms.