Logic as Universal Science: Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context

by A. Korhonen

Overview

Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230577008
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/05/2013
Series:	History of Analytic Philosophy
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

ANSSI KORHONEN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is specialized in conceptual and historical issues relating to the development of analytic philosophy.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Russell's Early Logicism: What was it about? Kant and Russell on the Mathematical Method Russell and Kant on the Synthetic A priori Russell's Ontological Logic Russell and the Bolzanian Conception of Logic Notes Bibliography Index