Logic as Universal Science: Russell's Early Logicism and Its Philosophical Context

Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding.

Author: A. Korhonen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.83h x 5.39w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780230577008

About the Author
ANSSI KORHONEN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is specialized in conceptual and historical issues relating to the development of analytic philosophy.