Hegel's Logic

Elena Ficara

Department of Philosophy
University of Paderborn, Germany

The tutorial is an introduction to Hegel’s logic from the point of view of the history and philosophy of logic.

The first part is about the meaning of Hegelian dialectic within the history of logic, and focuses on Hegel’s own reflections on the relation between his dialectical logic to Aristotle’s, Leibniz’s and Kant’s logic.

The second is devoted to the role of Hegel’s logic within the philosophy of logic, considering Hegel’s view on some basic concepts such as “logic”, “truth” and “validity”.

The third focuses on the strictly formal import of Hegel’s logic, briefly presenting the main attempts at formalizing Hegel's dialectic, and examining the behaviour of dialectical negation, conjunction and contradiction from a paraconsistent point of view.

First Session: Hegel within the History of Logic

Second Session: Hegel Within the Philosophy of Logic

Third Session: Formalizing Hegel

Bibliography

JC Beall and E. Ficara (to appear), “Hegelian Conjunction, Hegelian Contradiction”, presented for publication to Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy.

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F. D'Agostini 2011, “Hegel's interpretation of Megarian paradoxes. Between logic and metaphilosophy”, in: E. Ficara (ed.), Die Begründung der Philosophie im Deutschen Idealismus, Königshausen&Neumann, Würzburg, 121-140.

E. Ficara 2013, “Dialectic and Dialetheism”, in: History and Philosophy of Logic 34, 35-52.

E. Ficara 2014, “Hegel’s Glutty Negation”, in: History and Philosophy of Logic, to appear.

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