George Boole (1815-1864) is widely known to mathematicians for his examine and textbooks at the calculus, yet his identify has unfold world-wide for his concepts in symbolic common sense and the advance and purposes made due to the fact his day. The software of "Boolean algebra" in computing has significantly elevated interest within the nature and volume of his achievements. His paintings is so much available in his books on good judgment, "A mathematical research of common sense" (1947) and "An research of the legislation of notion" (1954). yet at a number of instances he wrote manuscript essays, in particular after the book of the second one ebook; numerous have been meant for a non-technical paintings, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was once unable to accomplish. This quantity includes an edited choice which not just relates them to Boole's courses and the old context of his time, but in addition describes their unusual historical past of kin, fans and students have treid to confect an variation. The publication will attract logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and people drawn to the histories of the corresponding topics; and in addition scholars of the early Victorian Britain during which they have been written.