Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IX
Subtitle: Philosophy of the English-Speaking World in the Twentieth
Series: Routledge history of philosophy; Routledge history of philosophy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780203029473
Subjects: Science; Philosophy; History
Description: Volume 9 of the Routledge History of Philosophy^ N surveys ten key topics in the philosophy of science, logic and mathematics in the twentieth century. Each of the essays is written by one of the worlds leading experts in that field.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; General editors' preface; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Philosophy of logic; Philosophy of mathematics in the twentieth century; Frege; Wittgenstein's Tractatus; Logical positivism; The philosophy of physics; The philosophy of science today; Chance, cause and conduct: probability theory and the explanation of human action; Cybernetics; Descartes' legacy: the mechanist/vitalist debates; Glossary; Index.