The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica
Published on 29. November 2013
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Hardback
XXVII, 458 pages
978-1-137-34462-5 (ISBN)
Description
To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years.
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Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XXVII, 458 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34462-5 (9781137344625)
DOI
10.1057/9781137344632
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Persons
Patricia Blanchette, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Jolen Galaugher, University of Iowa, USA
Sébastien Gandon, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont, France
Arie Hinkis lives in Israel and is the author of Proofs of the Cantor Bernstein Theorem. A Mathematical Excursion
Harold T. Hodes, Cornell University, USA
Reinhard Kahle, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Kevin C. Klement, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Gregory Landini, University of Iowa, USA
James Levine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Edwin Mares, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dustin Tucker, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Alasdair Urquhart, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada
Byeong-uk Yi, University of Toronto, Canada
Jan Wole?ski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Content
Note on Citations Introduction: Nicholas Griffin and Bernard Linsky PART I: THE INFLUENCE OF PM 1. Principia Mathematica : The First Hundred Years; Alasdair Urquhart 2. David Hilbert and Principia Mathematica ; Reinhard Kahle: 3. Principia Mathematica in Poland; Jan Wolenski PART II: RUSSELL'S PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC AND LOGICISM 4. From Logicism to Metatheory; Patricia Blanchette 5. Russell on Real Variables and Vague Denotation; Edwin Mares 6. The Logic of Classes and the No-Class Theory; Byeong-uk Yi 7. Why There Is No Frege-Russell Definition of Number; Jolen Galaugher PART III: TYPE THEORY AND ONTOLOGY 8. Principia Mathematica : ?! versus ?;Gregory Landini 9. PM's Circumflex, Syntax and Philosophy of Types; Kevin Klement 10. Principia Mathematica , the Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgment and Molecular Facts; James Levine 11. Report on Some Ramified-Type Assignment Systems and Their Model-Theoretic Semantics; Harold Hodes 12. Outline of a Theory of Quantification; Dustin Tucker PART IV: MATHEMATICS IN PM 13. Whatever Happened to Group Theory?; Nicholas Griffin 14. Proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem in Principia Mathematica ; Arie Hinkis 15. Quantity and Number in Principia Mathematica : A Plea for an Ontological Interpretation of the Application Constraint; Sébastien Gandon