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Theory of Descriptions
Russell and the Philosophy of Language
Av G. Stevens
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project.
Bolzano's Theoretical Philosophy
An Introduction
Av S. Lapointe
Inbunden, 2011
443 kr
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The first book in English to offer a systematic survey of Bolzano's philosophical logic and theory of knowledge, it offers a reconstruction of Bolzano's views on a series of key issues: the analysis of meaning, generality, analyticity, logical consequence, mathematical demonstration and knowledge …
Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language
Inbunden, 2009
1316 kr
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This volume's aim is to provide an introduction to Carnap's book from a historical and philosophical perspective, each chapter focusing on one specific issue. The book will be of interest not only to Carnap scholars but to all those interested in the history of analytical philosophy.
Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy
Av E. Reck
Inbunden, 2013
1098 kr
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During the last 25 years, a large number of publications on the history of analytic philosophy have appeared, significantly more than in the preceding period. As most of these works are by analytically trained authors, it is tempting to speak of a 'historical turn' in analytic philosophy. The …
Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers
Constructing the World
Av O. Nasim
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.
Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic
Av Douglas Patterson, Michael Beaney
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This study looks to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski and Tadeusz Kotarbinski, and reconsiders all of the major issues in Tarski scholarship in light of the conception of Intuitionistic Formalism developed: semantics, truth, paradox, logical consequence.
Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy
Av S. Candlish
Häftad, 2006
1207 kr
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In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry …
Wittgenstein After His Nachlass
Av Nuno Venturinha, Michael Beaney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Leading scholars in the field offer new ways of looking at Wittgenstein's papers as well as clear, comprehensive and original philosophical interpretations of them. The volume includes two texts by Wittgenstein previously unpublished in English.
Frege’s Notations
What They Are and How They Mean
Av Gregory Landini, Michael Beaney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking new solutions to many of the outstanding …
G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Av Kenneth A. Loparo, Maria Van Der Schaar m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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An investigatation of the influence of psychology and early phenomenology on the origins of analytic philosophy. This book is also of value for those interested in judgement, proposition, psychologism, logical realism, the problem of error, Gestalt theories, and tropes.
Metaphysical Basis of Ethics
G.E. Moore and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Inbunden, 2021
1425 kr
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This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore’s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moore’s early views …
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development
Phenomenology, Grammar, Method, and the Anthropological View
Av M. Engelmann
Inbunden, 2013
989 kr
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The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet challenges of his 'middle period.' It also shows why and how he invents a new method and develops an anthropological perspective, which gradually frame his philosophy and give birth to …
Carnap's Ideal of Explication and Naturalism
Av P. Wagner
Inbunden, 2012
1207 kr
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The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in …
Dummett on Abstract Objects
Av G. Duke
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities.
New Anti-Kant
Av F. Prihonsky, Sandra Lapointe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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Finally available in English, Príhonský's New Anti-Kant is an inescapable book for anyone interested in Kant's Critical philosophy. It provides a concise and systematic recapitulation of Bolzano's insightful, trenchant criticisms of Kant, and provides a fresh window into historical developments in …
Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense
Av S. Chapman
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and political background of her life. It also assesses Stebbing's contribution in the light of developments both in analytic philosophy and in linguistics in …
Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy
Av S. Candlish
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry …
Russell's Unknown Logicism
A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
Av S. Gandon
Inbunden, 2012
989 kr
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In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand …
Logic as Universal Science
Russell's Early Logicism and its Philosophical Context
Av A. Korhonen
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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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.
Moore and Wittgenstein
Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
Av A. Coliva
Inbunden, 2010
989 kr
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Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig …
Reasons and Causes
Causalism and Anti-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action
Av A. Laitinen, C. Sandis
Inbunden, 2013
1207 kr
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Are the reasons for which we act the causes of our actions? In the nine essays collected here (including a major historical overview by the editors), experts in the field re-evaluate the history and current state of the reasons/causes debate.
Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth
An Introduction to the Practice of Interpreting Philosophical Texts
Av U. Pardey
Inbunden, 2012
989 kr
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This book has two objectives: to be a contribution to the understanding of Frege's theory of truth – especially a defence of his notorious critique of the correspondence theory - and to be an introduction to the practice of interpreting philosophical texts.
History and Philosophy of Polish Logic
Essays in Honour of Jan Wole?ski
Av K. Mulligan, K. Kijania-PLacek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1098 kr
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The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions and reconstructions of aspects of Polish philosophy and logic as well as reactions to and developments …
Judgement and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology
Av M. Textor
Inbunden, 2013
1098 kr
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What is judgement? is a question that has exercised generations of philosophers. Early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein) and phenomenologists (Brentano, Husserl and Reinach) changed how philosophers think about this question. This book explores and assesses their contributions …
Russell's Philosophy of Logical Analysis, 1897-1905
Av J. Galaugher
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he …
Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica
Inbunden, 2013
1207 kr
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To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years.
Frank Ramsey and the Realistic Spirit
Inbunden, 2015
1207 kr
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This book attempts to explicate and expand upon Frank Ramsey's notion of the realistic spirit. In so doing, it provides a systematic reading of his work, and demonstrates the extent of Ramsey's genius as evinced by both his responses to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the impact he had on …
Quine and His Place in History
Av Gary Kemp, Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical …
Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition
Inbunden, 2020
1534 kr
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This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s, Oxford was the center of analytic philosophy and Wittgenstein – the later Wittgenstein – the most influential contemporary …
Wittgenstein and Pragmatism
On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James
Inbunden, 2016
1425 kr
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This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism inWittgenstein’s work On Certainty, through a comparison with thepragmatist tradition as expressed by its founding fathers Charles S. Peirceand William James. It also describes Wittgenstein’s first encounters withpragmatism in the 1930s and …
