Background
Bochenski, Jozef was born on August 30, 1902 in Czuszöw, Poland.
Bochenski, Jozef was born on August 30, 1902 in Czuszöw, Poland.
University of Lwow and University of Poznan.
1934-1940, Professor of Philosophy, Angelicum University. Rome; 1945-1972. Professor of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of feiburg, Switzerland: 1958-1975. Director, Institute of East European Studies, Freiburg.
Ma|n publications:11947) Europäische Philosophie der Gegenwart, second edition.
Munich: Lehnen, 1951.
( 1948) Précis de logique mathématique, Bussum: Kroonder.
11950) Der sowjet-russische dialektisch Materialismus, Bern: Franke.
11956) Formale Logik, Freiburg and Munich: Alber ^English translation A History of Formal Logic, otre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961).
11959) Die zeitgenössichen Denkmethoden, Bern: ranke The Logic of Religion, New York: New York University Press.
publications:
11947) Europäische Philosophie der Gegenwart, second edition. Munich: Lehnen, 1951 (English translation. Contemporary European Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956).
( 1948) Précis de logique mathématique, Bussum: Kroonder (English translation A Precis of Mathematical Logic, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1959).
11950) Der sowjet-russische dialektisch Materialismus, Bern: Franke (English translation, Soviet Dialectical Materialism, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1963).
11956) Formale Logik, Freiburg and Munich: Alber ^English translation A History of Formal Logic, otre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1961).
11959) Die zeitgenössichen Denkmethoden, Bern: ranke (English translation. The Methods of Contemporary Thought, Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
11965) The Logic of Religion, New York: New York University Press.
Secondary literature:
***. -lames J. (1971) ‘Analogy and "kinds" of things’, The Thomist 35: 293-304. cMullan, Eman (1959) ‘Mathematical logic’, pmlosophical Studies (Ireland) 9: 190-9.
Bochehski is one of the most distinguished and prolific contemporary historians of logic, particularly logic in the classical period. His studies of twentieth-century philosophy have focused most sharply upon dialectical materialism, and Soviet philosophy in general, and he has greatly influenced this area of scholarship by founding and editing the journal Studies in Soviet Thought, as well as by his own numerous publications. Amongst his work in theoretical philosophy one of the most interesting and innovative is The Logic of Religion (1965), which examines the logical character of religious terminology and discourse.
He distinguishes three elements in religious discourse: object-linguistic sentences such as ‘There is a God’, ‘Christ is the Son of God’, 'Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah’. A metalinguistic rule which specifies which sentences are of this type. A meta-logical rule which states that all such sentences have to be accepted as true.
He considers also the manner in which these sentences are axiomatized in a theology, the primitive terms which they contain, their semantic character, the method of their verification and the methodology of their justification. There is also a useful appendix on the nature of analogy. All of Bocheriski’s work is well regarded, especially his studies in the history of logic.