Witness Theory - Bibliography : Shefferiana 1 [equivalences : rara mathematica]

Henry Maurice Sheffer “The General Theory of Notational Relativity”, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 1921 [From: equivalences.org. Witness Theory — Bibliography: Historical Section — Rara Mathematica — Henry Maurice Sheffer (1883–1964)] Bibliographic details: “The General Theory of Notational Relativity”, by Henry M. Sheffer, Ph. D., Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass. 1921 [typescript: pp. 1-34 + 28 pp., with drawings (48 fig.), on 62 leaves, 28 cm.] The text is in the public domain; originally digitized by Google. PDF full view (original from Harvard Library) and free download per page from the Hathi Trust [hathitrust.org], http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044010115145;view=1up;seq=9 [title page]. [Cf. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100332030. In order to download the full booklet directly from the Hathi Trust, “(institutional) partner login” is required.] References — Alfred Tarski “What are logical notions” (1966), History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (2), 1986, 143– 154 [DOI: 10.1080/01445348608837096] (Text of 1966, edited, with an introduction, by John Corcoran. Tarski was, likely, the first person quoting Sheffer’s booklet in print; cf. his PhD Diss Warsaw [under S. Lesniewski] 1923.) — Michael Scanlan, “Who were the American postulate theorists?”, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (3), 1991, pp. 981–1002 (Historical context, etc.) — Michael Scanlan, “The known and unknown H. M. Sheffer”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 36 (2), 2000, pp. 193–224 (A comprehensive bio-bibliography of H. M. Sheffer, documenting also the “Sheffer Box”, i.e. Sheffer’s extant MSS.) — Michael Scanlan, “Sheffer’s Criticism of Royce’s Theory of Order”, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 46 (2), 2010, pp. 178–201 [DOI: 10.2979/TRA.2011.46.2.178] — Katalin Bimbó, “Schönfinkel-type operators for classical logic”, Studia Logica 95, 2010, pp. 355– 378 [DOI: 10.1007/s11225-010-9265-3] — Alasdair Urquhart, “Henry M. Sheffer and notational relativity”, History and Philosophy of Logic 33 (1), 2012, pp. 33–47 [DOI: 10.1080/01445340.2011.592261]; preprint [February 25, 2011] : http:// www.academia.edu/2140907/Henry_M._Sheffer_and_Notational_Relativity (The paper contains a detailed description of Sheffer’s booklet of 1921.) — Juliet Floyd (Boston University) “The Sheffer Box”, talk at the UC Berkeley Logic Colloquium, 11/21/2014 [slides @ http://logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium/FloydSlides.pdf; see also: http:// logic.berkeley.edu/colloquium/FloydHandout.pdf, and “The Sheffer Box”, talk at the Bordeaux Conference “The Relative A Priori”, 10/1-2/2014, Bordeaux, France] (Dr. Juliet Floyd is, likely, the best expert on the “Sheffer Box” nowadays.) — Juliet Floyd “H. M. Sheffer: Philosophy and Logic in the 1910s and 1920s" (Work in progress 2014-2015. Other preliminary talk: “La Boîte de Sheffer”, Société de Philosophie Analytique (SoPhA), Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec CA, scheduled for 6/17-20/2015. Cf. http://bu.academia.edu/ JulietFloyd, and http://www.bu.edu/philo/files/2014/11/Floydcv-Oct-2014-to-post.pdf.)