William Demopoulos

Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These essays apply the core conceptual innovation underlying Frege's theory of number to the general analysis of theoretical knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781107502581
• ISBN-10: 1107502586
• Artikelnr.: 42139529

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.