[FOM] Second Call for Papers, Jean van Heijenoort Centenary

[Irving Anellis]

Logica Universalis <http://www.logica-universalis.org/>



Special Issue, Second Call for Papers



Jean Van Heijenoort Centenary



edited by

Irving H. Anellis <http://irvinganellis.info/default.aspx>

*Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis*



Jean van Heijenoort

1912–1986





23 July 2012 marks the centenary of the birth of historian and philosopher
of logic Jean van Heijenoort, whose anthology *From Frege to Gödel *helped
define the nature and scope of modern mathematical logic for several
generations of logicians and the canon of fundamental works that comprise
the text for the formative period of mathematical logic as we know it today.
His influence in the history of mathematical logic was furthered by his work
as the editor of the papers of Jacques Herbrand and in his contributions to
the publication of the multi-volume *Collected Works* of Kurt Gödel. The
articles, published and unpublished, that were brought together in his
*Selected
Essays* articulated his conception of the course of the origin and
development of mathematical logic. His *El desarrollo de la teoría de la
cuantificación* provided an exposition of the “family of formal systems”
that comprise quantification theory and its proof procedures: the axiomatic
method, itself comprised of Frege-type systems and Hilbert-type systems;
Herbrand quantification; natural deduction; and the Gentzen sequent
calculus, which van Heijenoort enumerated as the four principal approaches
to first-order predicate calculus. He briefly examined the history of each
and considered them in their classical, intuitionistic, and minimal versions
and compared the strengths and weaknesses of each.



As editor of *From Frege to Gödel*, van Heijenoort exercised a critical
influence on the historiography of logic through much of the second half of
the twentieth century. Although aspects of his views on the nature and scope
of mathematical logic have more recently been challenged, as have aspects of
his conception of the history of mathematical logic, his ideas remain of
continuing influence among historians and philosophers of logic and
frequently serve as the starting point in discussions which challenge his
views, for example, his emphasis on the pivotal work of Gottlob Frege, and
corresponding lesser emphasis on the contributions of Frege’s contemporaries
among the algebraic logicians, and in particular of Charles Sanders Peirce
and Ernst Schröder, which he considered largely peripherally and indirectly,
through the lens of the Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem and Herbrand’s Fundamental
Theorem. Thus van Heijenoort’s work continues to occupy a significant place
in the historiography and philosophy of logic.



In addition to his historical work, van Heijenoort left a body of
manuscripts and typescripts, many of which were distributed to a handful of
close colleagues and to his Brandeis University logic students, and in which
he explored the model-theoretic properties of the falsifiability tree
method, particularly its soundness and completeness, and the relation
between the truth tree and falsifiability tree methods and its ancestors, in
particular Herbrand quantification and Beth tableaux. In his *Introduction à
la sémantique des logiques non-classiques*, van Heijenoort applied the tree
method to intuitionistic and modal logic.



The following have already consented to contribute to this Special Issue:



Irving H. Anellis (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)

Solomon Feferman (Stanford University)

John W. Dawson (Pennsylvania State University at York)

Philippe de Rouilhan (Université de Paris, I)

Georg Kreisel (Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie, Salzburg)



In addition, this special issue will include Jean van Heijenoort’s 1974
manuscript “Historical Development of Modern Logic”, with an introduction by
the editor.





We invite contributions to the special issue of *Logica Universalis* devoted
to any and all aspects of van Heijenoort’s work in logic, its history and
philosophy. Contributions for consideration should be sent in PDF to the
guest editor Irving H. Anellis at ianellis at iupui.edu.



Publication schedule:

Initial submission: 31 January 2012

Preview copy: 31 March 2012

Final copy:   31 May 2012

Publication target date: 23 July 2012




Irving H. Anellis
Visiting Research Associate
Peirce Edition Project
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
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