Logicism and Its Philosophical Legacy

Informationen zum Autor William Demopoulos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has edited many volumes on foundational and philosophical issues arising in the sciences, including Physical Theory and its Interpretation (with Itamar Pitowsky, 2006) and Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics (1995). Klappentext These essays apply the core conceptual innovation underlying Frege's theory of number to the general analysis of theoretical knowledge. Zusammenfassung This book will appeal to readers interested in analytic philosophy and its history. Avoiding mathematical detail and locating the relevant developments in their historical context! the book explains and extends recent advances in the philosophy of mathematics and our understanding of questions about the nature of scientific reality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Frege's analysis of arithmetical knowledge; 2. Carnap's thesis, on extending 'empiricism, semantics and ontology' to the realism-instrumentalism controversy; 3. Carnap's analysis of realism; 4. Bertrand Russell's The Analysis of Matter: its historical context and contemporary interest with Michael Friedman; 5. On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge; 6. Three views of theoretical knowledge; 7. Frege and the rigorization of analysis; 8. The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number; 9. The 1910 Principia's theory of functions and classes; 10. Ramsey's extensional propositional functions.

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• Authors: William Demopoulos, William (University of Western Ontario Demopoulos, William (University of Western Ontario) Demopoulos, Demopoulos William
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2013
• EAN: 9781107029804
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02980-4
• No. of pages: 281
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles; Philosophy, MATHEMATICS / Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism