Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays

by Frank Plumpton Ramsey

Overview

This is Volume V in a series of eight on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Originally published in 1931, this study offers a collection of logical essays around the topic of the foundations of mathematics. Though mathematical teaching was Ramsey's profession, philosophy was his vocation. Reared on the logic of Principia Mathematica, he was early to see the importance of Dr. Wittgenstein's work (in the translation of which he assisted); and his own published papers were largely based on this. But the previously unprinted essays and notes collected in this volume show him moving towards a kind of pragmatism, and the general treatise on logic upon which at various times he had been engaged was to have treated truth and knowledge as purely natural phenomena to be explained psychologically without recourse to distinctively logical relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134528103
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Series:	International Library of Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	667 KB

About the Author

FRANK PLUMPTON RAMSEY was born on 22nd February, 1903, and died on 19th January, 1930.

Table of Contents

PREFACE BY G.E. MOORE, EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTE ON SYMBOLISM PUBLISHED PAPERS I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS (1925) II. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC (1926) III. ON A PROBLEM OF FORMAL LOGIC (1928) IV. UNIVERSALS (1925) V. NOTE ON THE PRECEDING PAPER (1926) VI. FACTS AND PROPOSITIONS (1927) UNPUBLISHED PAPERS VII TRUTH AND PROBABILITY (1926) VIII. FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS (1928) A. REASONABLE DEGREE OF BELIEF B. STATISTICS C. CHANCE IX. LAST PAPERS (1929) A. THEORIES B. GENERAL PROPOSITIONS AND CAUSALITYC. PROBABILITY AND PARTIAL BELIEF D . KNOWLEDGE E. CAUSAL QUALITIES F. PHILOSOPHY APPENDIX: CRITICAL NOTICE OF L. WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS (1923)