Propositions, functions, and analysis : selected essays on Russell's philosophy /

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The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and articulating aspects of Russell's philosophical vision during his most influential and important period, the two decades following his break with Idealism in 1899. One...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hylton, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Russell, Bertrand, > 1872-1970.
Russell, Bertrand, > 1872-1970
1900-1999
Analysis (Philosophy) > History > 20th century.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical > History > 20th century.
Philosophie analytique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Logique symbolique et mathématique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Analysis (Philosophy)
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Logica.
Wiskundige logica.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism
  • Beginning with analysis
  • Logic in Russell's logicism
  • Russell's substitutional theory
  • The vicious circle principle
  • Review of Dummett's Origins of analytical philosophy
  • Functions and propositional functions in Principia mathematica
  • Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
  • Frege and Russell
  • The theory of descriptions.

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