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Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Sorin Costreie

    1. Philosophy Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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  • Acknowledges the fruitfulness of old thoughts and their influence on current disputes
  • Approaches the tradition from new angles
  • Focuses on continuities rather than discrepancies?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 80)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Frege

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Frege on Mathematical Progress

      • Patricia Blanchette
      Pages 3-19

    3. Identity in Frege’s Shadow

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 21-29

    4. Frege and the Aristotelian Model of Science

      • Danielle Macbeth
      Pages 31-48

    5. On the Nature, Status, and Proof of Hume’s Principle in Frege’s Logicist Project

      • Matthias Schirn
      Pages 49-96

  5. Carnap

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 335-335
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    2. Carnap, Logicism, and Ontological Commitment

      • Otávio Bueno
      Pages 337-352

    3. Frege the Carnapian and Carnap the Fregean

      • Gregory Lavers
      Pages 353-373
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This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical debates and to what extent these debates echo the original ideas. The collection aim is twofold: to better understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting, and to systematically examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions today.  Divided into five sections, the book first sets the stage and offers a general introduction to the background influences, as well as delimitations of the initial foundational positions. This first section contains two papers dedicated to the discussion of realism and the status of science at that time, followed by two papers that tackle the epistemic status of logical laws. The next three sections constitute the core of the volume, each being dedicated to the most important figures in the early analytic tradition: Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The last section gathers several essays that discuss either the relation between two or more analytic thinkers, or various important concepts such as ‘predicativism’ and ‘arbitrary function’, or the principles of abstraction and non-contradiction.​

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  • Philosophy Department, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Sorin Costreie

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