A fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Ramsey.
A fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy, viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frank Ramsey.
Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge University, UK, and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. His studies in the history of analytic philosophy include Reason's Nearest Kin (2000) and Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic (2009). He is also noted for work in the foundations of mathematics, including Set Theory and its Philosophy (2004).
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Introduction Part I Frege 1. Biography 2. Logic before 1879 3. Begriffsschrift I: Foundations of logic 4. Begriffsschrift II: Propositional logic 5. Begriffsschrift III: Quantification 6. Begriffsschrift IV: Identity 7. Begriffsschrift V: The ancestral 8. Early philosophy of logic 9. The Hierarchy 10. Grundlagen I: The context principle 11. Grundlagen II: Arithmetical truth 12. Grundlagen III: Numbers 13. Grundlagen IV: The formal project 14. Sense and reference I: Singular terms 15. Sense and reference II: Sentences 16. Sense anad references III: Concept-words 17. Grundgesetze I: Types 18. Grundgesetze II: Extensions 19. The Frege-Hilbert correspondence 20. Later writings 21. Frege's Legacy Part II Russell 1. Biography 2. Bradley 3. Geometry 4. McTaggart 5. German Mathematics 6. Whitehead 7. Moore 8. Leibniz 9. Peano 10. Early logicism 11. Denoting concepts 12. The contradiction 13. On denoting 14. Truth 15. Types 16. Middle logicism 17. Acquaintance 18. Matter 19. Pre-war judgement 20. Facts 21. Late logicism 22. Post-war judgement 23. Neutral monism 24. Russell's legacy III Wittgenstein 25. Biography 26. Facts 27. Pictures 28. Propositions 29. Sense 30. Wittgenstein's concept-script 31. Objects 32. Identity 33. Solipsism 34. Ordinary language 35. Minds 36. Logic 37. The metaphysical subject 38. Arithmetic 39. Science 40. Ethics 41. The mystical 42. The legacy of the Tractatus IV Ramsey 43. Biography 44. Truth 45. Knowledge 46. The foundations of mathematics I: Types 47. The foundations of mathematics II: Logicism 48. Universals 49. Degrees of belief 50. Facts and propositions 51. Last papers 52. Ramsey's legacy Bibliography
