Rereading Russell : essays in Bertrand Russell's metaphysics and epistemology
1989, First Edition. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #416869
ISBN: 0816616493
Physical description; xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Series; Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science; vol. XII. Contents; Russell's Reasons for Ramification -- Russell's Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences -- Russell's Paradox, Russellian Relations, and the Problems of Predication and Impredicativity -- The Significance of "On Denoting" -- Russelling Causal Theories of Reference -- Russell on Indexicals and Scientific Knowledge -- Sense-Data in Russell's Theories of Knowledge -- Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge Manuscript -- The Concept of Structure in The Analysis of Matter -- On Induction and Russell's Postulates -- Concepts of Projectability and the Problems of Induction -- Giving up Judgment Empiricism: The Bayesian Epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Grover Maxwell -- Russell on Order in Time -- Cause in the Later Russell -- Portrait of a Philosopher of Science. Subjects; Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970 Studies. Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970 Criticism and interpretation. Philosophy. Metaphysics History 20th century. Knowledge, Theory of, History 20th century. Philosophy History & Surveys Modern. Science Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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