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Zusatztext "...will primarily interest specialists in the philosophy of science! the philosophy of mathematics! and the history of analytic philosophy.... Unlike other collections which provide an overview of their author's major ideas over the course of a career! this one also contributes to current scholarship. Demopoulos mines the work of Frege! Russell! Carnap! and Ramsey to argue that attending to the history of logicism (understood broadly as the use of logical analysis to reveal what is distinctive about arithmetical knowledge) grants empiricists a deeper understanding of how to view the epistemic character of different parts of their theories.... I certainly recommend this stimulating collection. Demopoulos' critical engagement with Ramsey's dense and sometimes neglected opus! as well as his new work on the significance of fundamental identity criteria! makes this book an important contribution.... Demopoulos demonstrates an impressive ability to draw out the philosophical importance of technical results. Such passages serve as a model for those of us interested in finding a broader philosophical audience for formal work." --James Pearson! Bridgewater State University! Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 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....
