Logicism and its philosophical legacy
By: William Demopoulos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107029804
Subjects: Mathematics; Philosophy; Symbolic and mathematical Logic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Frege's analysis of arithmetical knowledge; title: Carnap's thesis; title: On extending 'empiricism, semantics and ontology' to the realism-instrumentalism controversy; title: Carnap's analysis of realism; title: Bertrand Russell's The analysis of matter: its historical context and contemporary interest (with Michael Friedman); title: On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge; title: Three views of theoretical knowledge; title: Frege and the rigorization of analysis; title: The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number; title: The 1910 Principia's theory of functions and classes; title: Ramsey's extensional propositional functions.