The philosophical logic of Stéphane Lupasco (1900–1988)
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In this paper, the authors make a further attempt to establish Lupasco's concepts as significant contributions to the history and philosophy of logic, in line with the work of Godel, general relativity, and the ontological turn in philosophy.Abstract:
The advent of quantum mechanics in the early 20 th Century had profound consequences for science and mathematics, for philosophy (Schrodinger), and for logic (von Neumann). In 1968, Putnam wrote that quantum mechanics required a revolution in our understanding of logic per se. However, applications of quantum logics have been little explored outside the quantum domain. Dummett saw some implications of quantum logic for truth, but few philosophers applied similar intuitions to epistemology or ontology. Logic remained a truth-functional ’science’ of correct propositional reasoning. Starting in 1935, the Franco-Romanian thinker Stephane Lupasco described a logical system based on the inherent dialectics of energy and accordingly expressed in and applicable to complex real processes at higher levels of reality. Unfortunately, Lupasco’s fifteen major publications in French went unrecognized by mainstream logic and philosophy, and unnoticed outside a Francophone intellectual community, albeit with some translations into other Romance languages. In English, summaries of Lupasco’s logic appeared ca. 2000, but the first major treatment and extension of his system was published in 2008 (see Brenner 2008). This paper is a further attempt to establish Lupasco’s concepts as significant contributions to the history and philosophy of logic, in line with the work of Godel, general relativity, and the ontological turn in philosophy.read more
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