Russell's Metaphysical Logic

Russell's Metaphysical Logic - CSLI Lecture Notes

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This study reconciles distinct aspects of Russell's thought long thought to be incompatible, the metaphysics of universals and facts from Russell's Logical Atomism period and the philosophical justification of the ramified theory of types in the Introduction to Principia Mathematica. This account, which interprets Russell as being a realist about both universals and propositional functions, while distinguishing the two, provides a defense of some problematic features of the logic of PM including the Axiom of Reducibility and the Vicious Circle Principle. Russell's seemingly ambivalent attitude towards propositions and functions is explained by interpreting both with a broadened notion of logical construction. Contrary to other recent interpretations, this account follows Alonzo Church's technical formulation of the ramified theory of types and interprets the quantifiers as objectual, ranging over functions as entities, while being consistent with the 'multiple relation' theory of judgment.

Book information

ISBN: 9781575862095
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Imprint: CSLI Publications
Pub date:
DEWEY: 192
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 150
Weight: 335g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 16mm