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 | | Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory by Gregory Landini ISBN-10: 9780195116830 ISBN-10: 0-19-511683-6 ISBN-13: 9780195116830 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511683-0 Hardcover 1998-08-20 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica. This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the substitutional theory reveals the unity of Russell's philosophy of logic and offers new avenues for a genuine solution of the paradoxes plaguing Logicism. | ||
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A Great New Reading of Russell! This is a truly innovative and fascinating approach to Russell's theory. The author makes use of many of Russell's unpublished manuscripts in order to shed light on his logical work. The book is both technically and philosophically sophisticated and deserves a wide audience among Russell scholars. The book offers an interpretation that is sure to be controversial, but deserves to be debated by any serious scholar of Russell. | ||