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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879–1930: From Frege to Ramsey book cover

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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy, 1879–1930 From Frege to Ramsey

By Michael Potter Copyright 2020
522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

522 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In this book Michael Potter offers 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. It covers the remarkable period of discovery that began with the publication of Frege's... Read more

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

    25. 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

    43.

    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

Biography

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).

"The book is an impressive achievement, and it will be an important contribution to the literature on Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, and the history of early analytic philosophy. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and learned a lot from it. It is not only a state-of-the-art contribution to scholarship but will also be a valuable textbook for courses on the history of early analytic philosophy, or on the work of one or more of the four philosophers discussed."

--David G. Stern, University of Iowa, USA

"This book is a significant contribution to studies in the history of analytic philosophy and will benefit upper-level undergraduates studying this material for the first time, as well as active researchers in the area."

--James Levine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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