Rereading Russell : Essays on Bertrand Russell's Metaphysics and Epistemology.

Rereading Russell : Essays on Bertrand Russell's Metaphysics and Epistemology.

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 a...

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Main Author: Savage, C. Wade
Other Authors: Anderson, C. Anthony
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
Series:Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science.
Subjects:
Russell, Bertrand, > 1872-1970.
Russell, Bertrand, > 1872-1970
Philosophy.
philosophy.
Philosophy
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Table of 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.

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