Thomas Anderson Goudge was the first member of the
philosophy department faculty to teach a course in modern mathematical
logic at the University of Toronto. We provide here a brief discussion of the
origin of Goudge's interest in logic and of how he came to introduce symbolic
logic courses into the philosophy department curriculum at the University
of Toronto. Much of the information presented here is based upon
John G. Slater's three-page essay "Thomas Anderson Goudge" prefacing the
Thoemmes Antiquarian Books' catalogue #68, "Books from the Working
Library of Professor Thomas A. Goudge". We also provide a brief sample of
the titles in logic that formed part of Goudge's working library.