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UNINA9910809064003321 |
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Rereading Russell : essays in Bertrand Russell's metaphysics and epistemology / / edited by C. Wade Savage and C. Anthony Anderson |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989 |
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0-8166-0001-5 |
1-4294-6219-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Collana |
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; ; v. 12 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SavageC. Wade |
AndersonC. Anthony |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-301). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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