Ficara E. The Form of Truth: Hegel’s Philosophical Logic

Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — xii, 218 p. — ISBN 978-3-11-070365-8, 978-3-11-070371-9, 978-3-11-070381-8.This book is a consideration of Hegel’s view on logic and basic logical concepts such as truth, form, validity, and contradiction, and aims to assess this view’s relevance for contemporary philosophical logic. The literature on Hegel’s logic is fairly rich. The attention to contemporary philosophical logic places the present research closer to those works interested in the link between Hegel’s thought and analytical philosophy (Stekeler-Weithofer 1992 and 2019, Berto 2005, Rockmore 2005, Redding 2007, Nuzzo 2010 (ed.), Koch 2014, Brandom 2014, 1–15, Pippin 2016, Moyar 2017, Quante & Mooren 2018 among others). In this context, one particularity of this book consists in focusing on something that has been generally underrated in the literature: the idea that, for Hegel as well as for Aristotle and many other authors (including Frege), logic is the study of the forms of truth, i.e. the forms that our thought can (or ought to) assume in searching for truth. In this light, Hegel’s thinking about logic is a fundamental reference point for anyone interested in a philosophical foundation of logic.Abbreviated References and CitationThe present research and extant works on Hegel’s logic
Hegel within the history of logic
The title
The content
Logic
Terminological preliminaries: Das Logische and die Logik,
Verstandeslogik and Vernunftlogik
Logic and natural logic
Two logics?
What does it mean to say that “logic coincides with metaphysics”?
Metaphysics as a part of logic
Logic and the objectivity of thought
Logic and metaphysics. From nature to theory and back
From natural logic to philosophical logic
Philosophical logic as conceptual logic
What kind of logic is Hegel’s logic?
Transcendental logic?
Hegel’s logic and contemporary conceptions of “philosophical logic”
Conceptuality and the philosophical approach to logic
Concepts and the forms of truthForm
Hegel on the history of formal logic
Aristotle
Stoic Logic
Leibniz
Kant
Hegel on logical forms
Five theses on forms
Against formal logic?
Is Hegel’s logic formal?
Formalising Hegel’s logic?
One hypothesis
What are logical forms?Truth
Truth-bearers
Hegel and the sentential nature of truth
Hegel’s critique of the sentential form
“The true is the whole”/“The true is the process”
Satz and Urteil91
Richtigkeit and Wahrheit
The meaning of “true”
Truth as correspondence
The relation between rationality and reality
Hegel’s concept of truth in contemporary perspective
Coherentism or pragmatism?
The Aristotelian core of Hegel’s theory of truth
Hegel and truth in logicValidity
Dialectic from Zeno to Kant
Zeno, Sophists and Heraclitus
Plato
The Megarians
Aristotle
The Sceptics
Kant
Hegel’s own account of dialectical inferences
What is dialectic?
Hegel’s account within the history of logic
Controversies on the nature of dialectical inferences
Truth and ValidityContradiction
Conjunction [Vereinigung]
Negation
The Law of Non-Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle
Hegelian paraconsistentismBibliography
Index of Names
Index of SubjectsTrue PDF