[FOM] Free review/article on TARSKI'S COLLECTED PAPERS

[John Corcoran]

https://www.academia.edu/s/c15dbf52d9?source=link

 

CORCORAN REVIEWS THE 4 VOLUMES OF TARSKI’S COLLECTED PAPERS [NOW FREE OF
CHARGE]

Alfred Tarski (1901--1983) is widely regarded as one of the two giants of
twentieth-century logic and also as one of the four greatest logicians of
all time (Aristotle, Frege and Gödel being the other three). Of the four,
Tarski was the most prolific as a logician. The four volumes of his
collected papers, which exclude most of his 19 monographs, span over 2500
pages. Aristotle's writings are comparable in volume, but most of the
Aristotelian corpus is not about logic, whereas virtually everything written
by Tarski concerns logic more or less directly. There is no doubt that
Tarski wrote more on logic than any other author; he started publishing on
logic in 1921 at the age of 20 and continued until his death at the age of
82.

 

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