Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy

Edited by Vladimir Svoboda, Bjørn Jesperson, Colin Cheyne

Tichy was an original and gifted logician and philosopher of language. He developed what he called Transparent Intensional Logic, a semantic theory within which to analyse both natural and artificial languages. This theory is devoted to the central problem of saying exactly what it is that we learn, know and can communicate when we come to understand what a sentence means. The theory remains one of the most inspiring and controversial doctrines of contemporary philosophical logic, attracting passionate defenders and equally fierce opponents.

More than forty papers are collected together in this book to trace the development of Tichy's ideas. They include his earliest papers (hitherto available only in Czech), the papers that informed his important 1998 mono-graph The Foundations of Frege's Logic, through to the mature doctrines that he was still elaborating at his untimely death in 1994. Also included are several acclaimed polemical pieces in which Tichy criticised the leading, and he thought mistaken, ideas of influential contemporary thinkers.

Co-published with Filosofia, The Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Contents

Preface
1 The Foundations of Tichy's Logic
2 Short Biography of Pavel Tichy
3 Complete List of Publications by Pavel Tichy
4 Note from the Editors
5 Reprints of Papers (46 papers)

About Pavel Tichy

Tichy taught at Charles University, Prague, from 1961 to 1970, when he moved to the University of Otago in New Zealand. There he taught from 1970 to 1994 and became Professor of Logic.

Publication details

ISBN 1 877276 98 7, hardback, 240 x 170 mm, 904 pages, $49.95
Release: May 2005, out of print