Propositions, functions, and analysis [electronic resource] : selected essays on Russell's philosophy / Peter Hylton.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 226 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 192 22
LOC classification:
  • B1649.R94 H94 2005eb
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Contents:
The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism -- Beginning with analysis -- Logic in Russell's logicism -- Russell's substitutional theory -- The vicious circle principle -- Review of Dummett's Origins of analytical philosophy -- Functions and propositional functions in Principia mathematica -- Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- Frege and Russell -- The theory of descriptions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-223) and index.

The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism -- Beginning with analysis -- Logic in Russell's logicism -- Russell's substitutional theory -- The vicious circle principle -- Review of Dummett's Origins of analytical philosophy -- Functions and propositional functions in Principia mathematica -- Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- Frege and Russell -- The theory of descriptions.

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