TY - BOOK ID - 7518571 TI - Logicism and its philosophical legacy PY - 2013 SN - 9781107029804 1107029805 9781139342605 9781107502581 9781139625876 113962587X 1139342606 9781139616577 1139616579 9781283870641 1283870649 9781139612852 1139612859 1139610996 9781139610995 1107237386 9781107237384 1139609211 9781139609210 1139622153 9781139622158 1107502586 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. KW - Mathematics KW - Philosophy. KW - Mathematische Logik KW - Mathematik. KW - Philosophie. KW - Mathematische Logik. KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Logic of mathematics KW - Mathematics, Logic of KW - Algebra of logic KW - Logic, Universal KW - Mathematical logic KW - Symbolic and mathematical logic KW - Symbolic logic KW - Algebra, Abstract KW - Metamathematics KW - Set theory KW - Syllogism KW - Philosophy KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7518571 AB - The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism's principal legacy for philosophy: its elaboration of notions of analysis and reconstruction. The essays reflect on the deployment of these ideas by the principal figures in the history of the subject - Frege, Russell, Ramsey and Carnap - and in doing so illuminate current concerns about the nature of mathematical and theoretical knowledge. Issues addressed include the nature of arithmetical knowledge in the light of Frege's theorem; the status of realism about the theoretical entities of physics; and the proper interpretation of empirical theories that postulate abstract structural constraints. ER -