Logic as Universal Science [electronic resource] : Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context /
Korhonen, A.author.
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.
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Cover ; Logic as Universal Science; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Russell's Early Logicism: What Was It About?; 2 Kant and Russell on the Mathematical Method; 3 Russell on Kant and the Synthetic a priori; 4 Russell's Ontological Logic; 5 Russell and the Bolzanian Conception of Logic; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
Philosophy.
Logic.
Analysis (Philosophy).
History of Philosophy.
Logic.
Analytic Philosophy.