On the Beginning of Mathematical Logic in China: Zhang Shenfu's Search for a Universal Model for Objectivity, 1919-1928

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angličtina
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On the Beginning of Mathematical Logic in China: Zhang Shenfu's Search for a Universal Model for Objectivity, 1919-1928
Original language description
Zhang Shenfu ??? (originally Zhang Songnian ???), who counts as one of the most passionate proponents of western science among the May Fourth intellectual elite, was also one of the first philosophers or logicians to have introduced the notion of mathematical logic - especially B. Russell's work - to the Chinese readership. In the years following the May Fourth event, the so called intellectual enlightenment was dominated by the search for a new kind of socially applicable scientific objectivity which would be able to transgress the formally hermertic "inner turf" of formal sciences and subsequently also serve as a tool for universal revolution in society. Based on the contemporary development in philosophy and structural formal sciences, the notion ofmathematical logic was presented to the Chinese readership as a crown term representing the peak of Western scientific search for universal laws. The period of its significance as an objectivist construct as well as a scientific discipli
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Project
<a href="/en/project/LK11218" target="_blank" >LK11218: Deconstruction and construction of national traditions and science in China</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2014
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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