| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Russell's early logicism and its philosophical context |
| Author: |
KorhonenAnssi., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resourceill. : |
| Series: |
History of analytic philosophy |
| Subject: |
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137304858An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on publisher supplied information; title not viewed. |
| Summary: |
Bertrand Russell was a central figure in the rise of analytic philosophy, and there are few works in the genre whose influence is comparable to The Principles of Mathematics (1903), a book that established him as a major force in British philosophy. Logic as Universal Science takes a fresh look at the context of The Principles. This, it is argued, involves an extended argument against Kant's transcendental idealism and his conception of mathematics as a synthetic a priori science grounded in pure intuition. Philosophically, Russell's logicism substitutes pure logic for pure intuitions as the true source of mathematical knowledge. In this way, logic turns out to be a universal science and very far from Kant's general logic, which is a concise and dry science, delivering nothing but a purely formal criterion for knowledge. The picture of logic emerging from this opposition is investigated in detail for its content and consequences. |
| ISBN: |
9781137304858electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137304855electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Russell's Early Logicism: What was it about? Kant and Russell on the Mathematical Method Russell and Kant on the Synthetic A priori Russell's Ontological Logic Russell and the Bolzanian Conception of Logic. |