Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays (International Library of Philosophy) - Softcover

Ramsey, Frank Plumpton

 
9780415408523: Foundations of Mathematics and other Logical Essays (International Library of Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0415408520 ISBN 13: 9780415408523
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

This is Volume V in a series of eight on the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics. Originally published in 1931, this study offers a collection of logical essays around the topic of the foundations of mathematics. Though mathematical teaching was Ramsey's profession, philosophy was his vocation. Reared on the logic of Principia Mathematica, he was early to see the importance of Dr. Wittgenstein's work (in the translation of which he assisted); and his own published papers were largely based on this. But the previously unprinted essays and notes collected in this volume show him moving towards a kind of pragmatism, and the general treatise on logic upon which at various times he had been engaged was to have treated truth and knowledge as purely natural phenomena to be explained psychologically without recourse to distinctively logical relations.

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About the Author

FRANK PLUMPTON RAMSEY was born on 22nd February, 1903, and died on 19th January, 1930.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415408520
ISBN 13 
9780415408523
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
294

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