Bertrand Russell and the Origins of the Set-theoretic ‘Paradoxes’
Xll Russell's published works include more than sixty books, several unpublished manuscripts, many hundreds of articles, dozens of radio and TV interviews and films, covering a wide spectrum of knowledge. His writings embrace discussions and analysis of such diverse topics as social sciences, f...
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| Language: | English |
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Birkhäuser
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. Antecedents
- II. A standard interpretation
- III. The philosophical and mathematical background to The Principles of Mathematics, 1872–1900
- IV. Russell’s discovery of the ‘paradoxes’
- V. The ‘semantic paradoxes’
- Conclusions
- Appendix. Correspondence
- 6.1 Alys Russell
- 6.2 G. E. Moore
- 6.3 David Hilbert
- 6.4 Cesare Burali-Forti
- 6.5 G. G. Berry
- 6.6 Alfred N. Whitehead
- 6.7 G. H. Hardy
- 6.8 E. H. Moore
- List of tables
- List of illustrations