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Logicism and its philosophical legacy /

"The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of cla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Demopoulos, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frege's analysis of arithmetical knowledge
  • Carnap's thesis
  • On extending 'empiricism, semantics and ontology' to the realism-instrumentalism controversy
  • Carnap's analysis of realism
  • Bertrand Russell's The analysis of matter: its historical context and contemporary interest (with Michael Friedman)
  • On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge
  • Three views of theoretical knowledge
  • Frege and the rigorization of analysis
  • The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number
  • The 1910 Principia's theory of functions and classes
  • Ramsey's extensional propositional functions.