Cart
Free Shipping in the UK
Proud to be B-Corp

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy By William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy by William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)


£20.99
Condition - New
Only 2 left

Summary

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.

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy Summary

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy by William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)

The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism's principal legacy for philosophy: its elaboration of notions of analysis and reconstruction. The essays reflect on the deployment of these ideas by the principal figures in the history of the subject - Frege, Russell, Ramsey and Carnap - and in doing so illuminate current concerns about the nature of mathematical and theoretical knowledge. Issues addressed include the nature of arithmetical knowledge in the light of Frege's theorem; the status of realism about the theoretical entities of physics; and the proper interpretation of empirical theories that postulate abstract structural constraints.

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy Reviews

'As a philosophy major at the University of Western Ontario in 1995 I was fortunate enough to enroll in Demopoulos' history of analytic philosophy class ... The essays in this volume preserve the intensity and commitment to rigorous argumentation that I first encountered in that class twenty years ago. ... I look forward to Demopoulos' next contribution to these important debates.' Chris Pincock, The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies

About William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)

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).

Table of Contents

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.

Additional information

NLS9781107502581
9781107502581
1107502586
Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy by William Demopoulos (University of Western Ontario)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-03-05
286
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy