Author : Michael Friedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521840155
This book explores the major themes of Carnap's philosophy and discusses his relationship with the Vienna Circle.
Author : Nicholas Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521636346
Mathematics in and behind Russell's logicism, and its reception / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Russell's philosophical background / Nicholas Griffin -- Russell and Moore, 1898-1905 / Richard L. Cartwright -- Russell and Frege / Michael Beaney -- Bertrand Russell's logicism / Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine -- The theory of descriptions / Peter Hylton -- Russell's substitutional theory / Gregory Landini -- The theory of types / Alasdair Urquhart -- Russell's method of analysis / Paul Hager -- Russell's neutral monism / R.E. Tully -- The metaphysics of logical atomism / Bernard Linksy -- Russell's structuralism and the absolute description of the world / William Demopoulos -- From knowledge by acquaintance to knowledge by causation / Thomas Baldwin -- Russell, experience, and the roots of science / A.C. Grayling -- Bertrand Russell: moral philosopher or unphilosophical moralist? / Charles R. Pidgen.
Author : Tom Ricketts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521624282
Offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the scope and importance of Gottlob Frege's work.
Author : Richard L. Mendelsohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,16 MB
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139444033
This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies Frege's technique to the central notions of predication, identity, existence and truth. Of particular interest is the analysis of the Paradox of Identity and a discussion of three solutions: the little-known Begriffsschrift solution, the sense/reference solution, and Russell's 'On Denoting' solution. Russell's views wend their way through the work, serving as a foil to Frege. Appendices give the proofs of the first 68 propositions of Begriffsschrift in modern notation. This book will be of interest to students and professionals in philosophy and linguistics.
Author : Barry Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521436168
Exploring the full range of Husserl's work, these essays reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. An underlying theme is resistance to the idea, current in much intellectual history, of a radical break between "modern" and "postmodern" philosophy, with Husserl as the last of the great Cartesians.
Author : Tom Ricketts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113982578X
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.
Author : Hans Sluga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110712025X
Updated edition of this important book, charting the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy of the mind, language, logic, and mathematics.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827030
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.
Author : Lex Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827235
First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and knowledge arise from sense experience. Locke was trained in mechanical philosophy and he crafted his account to be consistent with the best natural science of his day. The Essay was highly influential and its rendering of empiricism would become the standard for subsequent theorists. This Companion volume includes fifteen new essays from leading scholars. Covering the major themes of Locke's work, they explain his views while situating the ideas in the historical context of Locke's day and often clarifying their relationship to ongoing work in philosophy. Pitched to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it is ideal for use in courses on early modern philosophy, British empiricism and John Locke.
Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108365043
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas. Dale Jacquette's lively and incisive biography charts Frege's life from its beginnings in small-town north Germany, through his student days in Jena, to his development as an enduringly influential thinker. Along the way Jacquette considers Frege's ground-breaking Begriffschrift (1879), in which he formulated his 'ideal logical language', his magisterial Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (1893 and 1903), and his complex relation to thinkers including Husserl and especially Russell, whose Paradox had such drastic implications for Frege's logicism. Jacquette concludes with a thoughtful assessment of Frege's legacy. His rich and informative biography will appeal to all who are interested in Frege's philosophy.
