Logic as Universal Science: Russell's Early Logicism and Its Philosophical Context

By Anssi Korhonen

Book Overview

Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349366854
• ISBN13: 9781349366859
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"