| Description | | - Classic essays from one of the world's leading authorities on Russell
- The fruits of three decades of research
- Essential for all historians of twentieth-century thought
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The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and articulating aspects of Russell's philosophical vision during his most influential and important period, the two decades following his break
with Idealism in 1899.
One theme of the collection concerns Russell's views about propositions and their analysis, and the relation of those ideas to his rejection of Idealism. Another theme is the development of Russell's logicism, culminating in Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica
, and Hylton offers a revealing view of the conception of logic which underlies it. Here again
there is an emphasis on Russell's argument against Idealism, on the idea that his logicism was a crucial part of that argument. A further focus of the volume is Russell's views about functions and propositional functions. This theme is part of a contrast that Hylton draws between Russell's general philosophical position and that of Frege; in particular, there is a close parallel with the quite
different views that the two philosophers held about the nature of philosophical analysis. Hylton also sheds valuable light on the much-disputed idea of an operation, which Wittgenstein advances in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Featuring a previously unpublished essay and a helpful new introduction, Propositions, Functions, and Analysis
will be welcomed by anyone engaged with the
history of twentieth-century ideas.
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Readership: Scholars and students of the history of 20th century philosophy, and of logic.
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism (1984)
2.
Beginning with analysis (1996)
3.
Logic in Russell's logicism (1990)
4.
Russell's substitutional theory (1980)
5.
The vicious circle principle: comments on Philippe de Rouilhan (1992)
6.
Review of Michael Dummett, Origins of Anayltic Philosophy
(1995)
7.
Functions and propositional functions in Principia Mathematica
(1994)
8.
Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
(1997)
9.
Frege and Russell (2005)
10.
The theory of descriptions (2003)
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Peter Hylton, University of Illinois, Chicago
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