Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic: Approaching Identity and Reference from Classical Chinese Philosophy to Modern Logic (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) - Softcover

Mou, Bo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032590521 ISBN 13: 9781032590523

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.

The law of identity and the law of non-contradiction are widely accepted principles in logic and other intellectual pursuits. However, there are disagreements as to how to understand and treat the genuine structures and contents of these two basic principles. This book provides a holistic inquiry into these principles for the sake of enhancing our understanding and treatment of them from the vantage point of cross-tradition engagement. It begins by offering a philosophical interpretation of three classical texts in Chinese philosophy in their respective contexts: the “Bai-Ma-Lun” in Gongsun Long’s texts, the “Xiao-Qu” in the Later Mohist texts, and Lao Zi’s Dao-De-Jing in classical Daoism. The author explains an innovative dual-track characterization of relative identity that is informed by relevant resources from these texts as well as Western philosophical traditions. He shows how this cross-tradition engaging approach can make constructive and significant contributions to the jointly concerned fundamental issues of identity and reference in logic, philosophy of logic and language, metaphysics, as well as philosophy more generally.

Cross-Tradition Engagement on the Laws of Logic will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

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About the Author

Bo Mou is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University, California, USA. He is the author of the monograph books Substantive Perspectivism (2009), Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy: A Unifying Pluralist Account (2019), and Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive-Engagement Account (2020). He is also a contributing editor for History of Chinese Philosophy (2009) and Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy (2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032590521
• ISBN 13: 9781032590523
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270