Overview
- Offers a comprehensive critical survey of issues of historical interpretation and evaluation of the logical atomism lectures and logical atomism itself
- Fills this gap in the scholarly literature on Bertrand Russell and the importance and the impact of the lectures on Russell’s contemporaries and on subsequent analytic philosophy
- Taps into a fruitful, constant, and ongoing discussion among scholars on the merits of Russell's theory on logical atomism
Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History of Russell’s Logical Atomism
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Metaphysics: Fundamentality and Negative Facts
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Language: The Theory of Judgment and Descriptivism
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Epistemology: Acquaintance and Analysis
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gregory Landini is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of four books on the founding figures of analytic philosophy, including the groundbreaking Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory in 1998 - explaining how the early substitutional logic of Russell’s type-free ontology of propositions, which was planned for his never realized second volume of The Principles of Mathematics (1903) evolved into the “no-propositions” simple type formal grammar of Principia Mathematica (1910). It’s sequel, Wittgenstein’s Apprenticeship with Russell (2007) argues that Wittgenstein’s Tractarian doctrines were offered in alliance with Russell’s 1914 program for scientific method in philosophy with an emulation of Principia’s logic as its essence. Together with his book Russell (2010), all three earned Bertrand Russell Society Book Awards. The fourth book, Frege’s Notations: What they are and how they mean (2012) is in Palgrave Macmillan’s History of Analytic Philosophy Series. Landini has written many scholarly articles on Russell, including “Whitehead’s (Badly) Emended Principia” and “Typos of Principia Mathematica” in History and Philosophy of Logic, “Russellian Facts About the Slingshot” in Axiomathes, and “Zermelo and Russell’s Paradox: Is There a Universal Set?” and “Logicism and the Problem of Infinity: The Number of Numbers” in Philosophia Mathematica. He is a director of the Bertrand Russell Society.
Landon D. C. Elkind is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is treasurer of the Bertrand Russell Society and of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy. His dissertation, In Defense of Logical Atomism, concerns both the necessary features of the underlying logic of logical atomism and what doctrines are essential to logical atomism, especially in light of its historical development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Book Subtitle: A Centenary Reappraisal
Editors: Landon D. C. Elkind, Gregory Landini
Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94364-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94363-3Published: 19 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40487-1Published: 20 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94364-0Published: 11 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5994
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics