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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451503303321

Titolo

Rereading Russell [[electronic resource] ] : essays in Bertrand Russell's metaphysics and epistemology / / edited by C. Wade Savage and C. Anthony Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-0001-5

1-4294-6219-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

SavageC. Wade

AndersonC. Anthony

Disciplina

501 s

192

Soggetti

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-301).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on References; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Russell's Reasons for Ramification; Russell's Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences; Russell's Paradox, Russellian Relations, and the Problems of Predication and Impredicativity; The Significance of ""On Denoting""; Russelling Causal Theories of Reference; Russell on Indexicals and Scientific Knowledge; Sense-Data in Russell's Theories of Knowledge; Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge Manuscript; The Concept of Structure in The Analysis of Matter; On Induction and Russell's Postulates

Concepts of Projectability and the Problems of InductionGiving up Judgment Empiricism: The Bayesian Epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Grover Maxwell; Russell on Order in Time; Cause in the Later Russell; Portrait of a Philosopher of Science; References; Notes on Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rereading Russell was first published in 1989. Though Betrand Russell is best known for his formative role in the creation of symbolic logic (the Principia Mathematica) and analytic philosophy, he was also among the founders of twentieth-century philosophy of science; he used his



method of logical analysis to devise a metaphysics and epistemology that could accommodate revolutionary changes in physics and psychology. Yet these areas -- especially in his later work -- have been neglected and undervalued. The essays in Rereading Russell help to remedy that neglect, by calling attention to the wh