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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Savage, C. Wade.

Anderson, C. Anthony.

Series:

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

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Russell, Bertrand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-301).

ISBN:

0-8166-0001-5

1-4294-6219-1

OCLC:

191952845

Publisher Number:

9780816616497