Christian, Toumba Patalé: Logic: From Philosophy to Mathematics? Towards George Boole’s Algebra of Logic

Can logic be fully detached from philosophy and absorbed into mathematics? In Logic: From Philosophy to Mathematics? Towards George Boole’s Algebra of Logic, Christian Toumba Patalé examines George Boole’s transformative project of recasting logic as a mathematical science. Traditionally rooted in Aristotelian and Stoic philosophies, logic underwent a major shift in the nineteenth century when Boole, inspired by Leibniz’s vision of a calculus ratiocinator, proposed expressing the laws of thought