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

The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. 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 phi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hylton, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Russell, Bertrand, > 1872-1970.
Analysis (Philosophy) > History > 20th century.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical > History > 20th century.
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020190.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2005020190-d.html
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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