Demopoulos, William.

Logicism and its philosophical legacy [electronic resource] / William Demopoulos. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xii, 272 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frege's analysis of arithmetical knowledge -- Carnap's thesis -- On extending 'empiricism, semantics and ontology' to the realism-instrumentalism controversy -- Carnap's analysis of realism -- Bertrand Russell's The analysis of matter: its historical context and contemporary interest (with Michael Friedman) -- On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge -- Three views of theoretical knowledge -- Frege and the rigorization of analysis -- The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number -- The 1910 Principia's theory of functions and classes -- Ramsey's extensional propositional functions.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781139612852 (electronic bk.)




Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematics--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

QA9 / .D38 2013

511.3