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In Memoriam

Dr Paul Tomassi

Paul TomassiPaul Tomassi's three principal interests are logic, logic and logic. He is the author of the imaginatively-titled Logic, Routledge 1999 and a number of other publications almost all of which have 'logic' in the title. Hobbies include teaching classical logic to students who believe they cannot pass logic courses (but who generally do) and exploring alternative, non-classical logics.

Logic aside, Paul Tomassi's interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of science, metaphysics and the history of Scottish Philosophy.

Publications

Book

Logic, Routledge. London & New York. 1999, pp. 411.
ISBN: 0-415-16696-9 (paperback)
ISBN: 0-415-16695-0 (hardback)

"Paul Tomassi's book is the most accessible and user-friendly introduction to formal logic currently available to students. Never intimidating, this is a text from which even the most unmathematically minded student can learn all the basics of elementary formal logic."

Professor E.J. Lowe, University of Durham.

Associated website featuring freeware and documentation for computer-based proof-theory for Logic, Paul Tomassi's Logic, http://www.oxford-virtual.com/Philosophy/Tomassi/.

Journal Articles & Contributed Papers:

  1. Truth, Warrant and Superassertibility’. This paper is forthcoming in Synthese. See: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0039-7857/contents (Articles in Advance).
  2. On The Metaphysics of Informed Environmental Concern’. The American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 333–343. ISSN: 0003–0481.
  3. 'On Dialogue: A Framework for a Logic of Natural Discourse'. Critical Studies (16), Language-Meaning-Social Construction Interdisciplinary Studies, Grant, C.B. and McLaughlin, D. (eds.) Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam-New York, December, 2001, pp. 85-105. ISBN: 90-420-1448-2.
  4. 'Identity, Analyticity and Epistemic Conservatism'. Sorites: An International Electronic Quarterly of Analytical Philosophy, Issue 13, October 2001, pp. 72-79. ISSN: 1135-1349. Web address: ftp://ftp.csic.es/pub/sorites/Issue_13/.
  5. 'Logic After Wittgenstein'. Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic, Volume 6(1), June 2001, pp. 43-70. ISSN: 0806-6205 (paper), 08066213 (electronic). Web address: http://tandf.catchword.com/ini=saramail/rpsv/catchword/tandf/08066205/v6n1/contp1.htm
  6. 'David Abercromby (d.1702?), Thomas Reid and 'The Scottish Philosophy''. Reid Studies An International Review of Scottish Philosophy, Volume 4, Number 1, Autumn 2000, pp. 53-68. ISSN: 0268-9723.
  7. 'Linguistic Understanding and the Philosophy of Language'. Minerva, An Internet Journal of Philosophy 4, November 2000. ISSN: 1393-614X. Web address: http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol4/index.html.
  8. 'From Toothache to Embarrassment: Wittgenstein on Emotion'. Philosophical Papers, Volume XXVIII, Number 3, December 1999, pp. 187-206. ISSN: 0556-8641.
  9. 'Logic and Diagnostic'. Minerva, An Internet Journal of Philosophy 3, November 1999. ISSN: 1393-614X. Web address: http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol3/index.html.
  10. 'Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology'. Ends and Means Vol. 1. No. 1. Autumn 1996, pp. 11-17. ISSN: 1472-5819.
  11. 'Logic and Medicine', Chapter 1 of Logic in Medicine, Second Edition. Calbert Phillips ed. British Medical Journal Supplement. London. 1995, pp.1-29. ISBN: 0-7279-0854-5.
  12. 'Logic and Scientific Method', Chapter 2 of Logic in Medicine, Second Edition. Calbert Phillips ed. British Medical Journal Supplement. London. 1995, pp.30-59. ISBN: 0-7279-0854-5.

Review Articles:

  1. ‘Logic, Form and Grammar’ by Peter Long. Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy, Volume 112, Number 448, October, 2003, pp. 754-759. ISSN: 0026-4423.
  2. 'The Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50, 1999, pp. 514-519. ISSN: 0007-0882.
  3. 'The Scottish Enlightenment And Other Essays', by George Davie. Philosophical Investigations 15, 1992, pp. 372-376. ISSN: 0190-0536.

Encyclopaedia/Dictionary Articles:

1. The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers, W.J. Manders & A.P.F. Sell (eds.), Thoemmes Press, Bristol, May 2002, two volumes, ISBN: 1-85506-955-5.

'Ogston, Francis (1803-1887)' Volume 2,pp. 879-881.
'Kerr, George (1771-1826)'Volume 2,pp. 632-633.

2. The Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers, A. Pyle (ed.), Thoemmes Press, Bristol, April 2000, two volumes, ISBN: 1-85506-704-8.

'Abercromby, David (d.1702?)'Volume 1,pp. 2-7.
'Binning, Hugh (1627-1653)'Volume 1,pp. 90-95.
'Duncan, Mark (1570?-1640)' Volume 1,pp. 266-268.
'Fergusson, James (1621-1667)' Volume 1,pp. 297-300.
'Fletcher, Andrew (1655-1716)'Volume 1,pp. 309-315.
'Rollock, Robert (1555?-1599)'Volume 2,pp. 689-691.
'Ross, Alexander (1591-1654)' Volume 2,pp. 692-698.

3. Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle, Tome III: Les Oeuvres Philosophique, Volume II, Presses Universitaires De France. Paris. February, 1989.

Entry on: Presuppositions and Non Truth-Conditional Semantics by D.S. Wilson, Academic Press, London. 1975, pp. 3855.
Entry on: The Concept of Language by N.L. Wilson, University of Toronto Press, Canada. 1959, pp. 3856.

4. The New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. Oxford (2004):

'Abercromby, David (d.1702?)'1000 words.
'Binning, Hugh (1627-1653)'1100 words.

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