Mathematics is everywhere and yet its objects are nowhere. There may be five apples on the table but the number five itself is not to be found in, on, beside or anywhere near the apples. So if not in space and time, where are numbers and other mathematical objects such as perfect circles and…
Hardback – 2017-02-24
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Critical Concepts in Philosophy
This volume of Bertrand Russell's Collected Papers finds Russell focused on writing Principia Mathematica during 1905–08. Eight previously unpublished papers shed light on his different versions of a substitutional theory of logic, with its elimination of classes and relations, during 1905-06.…
Hardback – 2014-01-10
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The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) taught at the University of Jena for thirty years, and was scarcely known outside a small circle of professional mathematicians and philosophers. However, later in the twentieth century he came to be recognized as someone who, in demonstrating the affinity of logic with…
Hardback – 2005-12-07
Routledge
Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…
Hardback – 1994-06-02
Routledge
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
This volume shows Russell in transition from a neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosopher to an analytic philosopher of the first rank. During this period his research centred on writing The Principles of Mathematics where he drew together previously unpublished drafts. These shed light on Russell's…
Hardback – 1994-03-03
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The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy,…
Hardback – 1992-12-17
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The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell