Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Frege

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Frege on Mathematical Progress

      • Patricia Blanchette

      Pages 3-19

   3. Identity in Frege’s Shadow

      • Jaakko Hintikka

      Pages 21-29

   4. Frege and the Aristotelian Model of Science

      • Danielle Macbeth

      Pages 31-48

   5. On the Nature, Status, and Proof of Hume’s Principle in Frege’s Logicist Project

      • Matthias Schirn

      Pages 49-96

3. Russell

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. A Study in Deflated Acquaintance Knowledge: Sense-Datum Theory and Perceptual Constancy

      • Derek H. Brown

      Pages 99-125

   3. Whitehead Versus Russell

      • Gregory Landini

      Pages 127-160

   4. The Place of Vagueness in Russell’s Philosophical Development

      • James Levine

      Pages 161-212

   5. Propositional Logic from The Principles of Mathematics to Principia Mathematica

      • Bernard Linsky

      Pages 213-229

4. Wittgenstein

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Later Wittgenstein on the Logicist Definition of Number

      • Sorin Bangu

      Pages 233-255

   3. Wittgenstein’s Color Exclusion and Johnson’s Determinable

      • Sébastien Gandon

      Pages 257-282

   4. The Concept of “Essential” General Validity in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

      • Brice Halimi

      Pages 283-300

   5. Reconstructing a Logic from Tractatus: Wittgenstein’s Variables and Formulae

      • David Fisher, Charles McCarty

      Pages 301-324

   6. Justifying Knowledge Claims After the Private Language Argument

      • Gheorghe Ştefanov

      Pages 325-333

5. Carnap

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335

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   2. Carnap, Logicism, and Ontological Commitment

      • Otávio Bueno

      Pages 337-352

   3. Frege the Carnapian and Carnap the Fregean

      • Gregory Lavers

      Pages 353-373

This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical debates and to what extent these debates echo the original ideas. The collection aim is twofold: to better understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting, and to systematically examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions today.  Divided into five sections, the book first sets the stage and offers a general introduction to the background influences, as well as delimitations of the initial foundational positions. This first section contains two papers dedicated to the discussion of realism and the status of science at that time, followed by two papers that tackle the epistemic status of logical laws. The next three sections constitute the core of the volume, each being dedicated to the most important figures in the early analytic tradition: Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The last section gathers several essays that discuss either the relation between two or more analytic thinkers, or various important concepts such as ‘predicativism’ and ‘arbitrary function’, or the principles of abstraction and non-contradiction.​

• Early Analytic Philosophy
• Epistemic status of logical laws
• Frege the Carnapian and Carnap the Fregean
• Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Influence of 19th Century Science
• Laws of nature in Ramsey, Braithwaite and Russell
• Logical Laws from Neo-Kantian and Early Analytic Perspectives
• Methods of analytic philosophy

• Philosophy Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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