Toward "Principia Mathematica", 1905-08
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780049200951
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780049200951
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317341783
This volume of Bertrand Russell's Collected Papers finds Russell focused on writing Principia Mathematica during 1905–08. Eight previously unpublished papers shed light on his different versions of a substitutional theory of logic, with its elimination of classes and relations, during 1905-06. A recurring issue for him was whether a type hierarchy had to be part of a substitutional theory. In mid-1907 he began writing up the final version of Principia, now using a ramified theory of types, and eleven unpublished drafts from 1907-08 deal with this. Numerous letters show his thoughts on the process. The volume's 80-page introduction covers the evolution of his logic from 1896 until 1909, when volume I of Principia went to the printer.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781315661995
Author : Russell Wahl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 147427806X
A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers. The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell explores this influence in detail and responds to renewed interest in Russell's philosophical approach, presenting the best guide to research in Russell studies today. Bringing new insights into Russell's relationship with his contemporaries, a team of experts explore his life-long battles with important philosophical issues. They consider how he influenced thinkers and schools of thought, from Schröder, Frege and Meinong to Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, while also covering his impact on individual issues in epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and political philosophy. Importantly this companion discusses often overlooked topics. Focusing on Russell's later views, including his moral philosophy and his politics, reveals that Russell did make significant contributions to ethics - both theoretical and practical - in the course of his career. Through a combination of enlightening historical background and sustained focus on Russell's impact on contemporary areas of philosophy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell demonstrates why Russell continues to influence philosophers of language, mathematics, epistemology and metaphysics.
Author : Stewart Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198809646
Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages, from Aristotle's insistence that a continuum is a unified whole, to the dominant account today, that a continuum is composed of infinitely many points. This book explores the key ideas and debates concerning continuity over more than 2500 years.
Author : Fraser MacBride
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192539310
The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth so their values can no longer be read. On the Genealogy of Universals seeks to overcome our sense of over-familiarity with these concepts by providing a case study of their evolution during the late 19th century and early 20th century, a study that shows how the history of these concepts is bound up with the origins and development of analytic philosophy itself. Understanding how these concepts were taken up, transfigured and given up by the early analytic philosophers, enables us to recover and reanimate the debate amongst them that otherwise remains Delphic - to interpret some of the early, originating texts of analytic philosophy that have hitherto baffled commentators, including Moore's early papers, to appreciate afresh the neglected contributions of philosophical figures that historians of analytic philosophy have mostly since forgot, including Stout and Whitehead, and to shed new light upon the relationships of Moore to Russell and Russell to Wittgenstein.
Author : Hans Sluga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 17,28 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 : Bernard Linsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1137344636
To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years.
Author : Sanford Shieh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192568809
A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true. A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in philosophy is that, at its very inception, this venerable conception of the relation between logic and necessity and possibility - the concepts of modality - was put into question. The founders of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, held that these concepts are empty: there are no genuine distinctions among the necessary, the possible, and the actual. In this book, the first of two volumes, Sanford Shieh investigates the grounds of this position and its consequences for Frege's and Russell's conceptions of logic. The grounds lie in doctrines on truth, thought, and knowledge, as well as on the relation between mind and reality, that are central to the philosophies of Frege and Russell, and are of enduring philosophical interest. The upshot of this opposition to modality is that logic is fundamental, and, to be coherent, modal concepts would have to be reconstructed in logical terms. This rejection of modality in early analytic philosophy remains of contemporary significance, though the coherence of modal concepts is rarely questioned nowadays because it is generally assumed that suspicion of modality derives from logical positivism, which has not survived philosophical scrutiny. The anti-modal arguments of Frege and Russell, however, have nothing to do with positivism and remain a challenge to the contemporary acceptance of modal notions.