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Repairing Bertrand Russell’s 1913 Theory of Knowledge

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  1. Gregory Landini

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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  • Repairs Bertrand Russell’s multiple-relation theory of judgment; revealing the constituents of general belief and undermining Wittgenstein’s objection
  • Revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Bertrand Russell’s Principia era and solves the outstanding problems confronting Bertrand Russell’s original research program
  • Defend the facts of Principia and explores how it remains a universal logic above the civil wars of the metaphysicians

Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction and Overview

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 1-76

  3. What Is Logic?

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 77-115

  4. Facts About Principia

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 117-175

  5. Acquaintance

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 177-238

  6. Direction

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 239-277

  7. Compositionality

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 279-323

  8. Scientific Philosophy’s Necessity

    • Gregory Landini
    Pages 325-375

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 377-397
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About this book

This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell’s Principia era. Chapter 1, 'Introduction and Overview', explains the program’s agenda. Inspired by the non-Fregean logicism of Principia Mathematica, it endorses the revolution within mathematics presenting it as a study of relations. The synthetic a priori logic of Principia is the essence of philosophy considered as a science which exposes the dogmatisms about abstract particulars and metaphysical necessities that create prisons that fetter the mind. Incipient in The Problems of Philosophy, the program’s acquaintance epistemology embraced a multiple-relation theory of belief. It reached an impasse in 1913, having been itself retrofitted with abstract particular logical forms to address problems of direction and compositionality. With its acquaintance epistemology in limbo, ScientificMethod in Philosophy became the sequel to Problems. Chapter 2 explains Russell’s feeling intellectually dishonest. Wittgenstein’s demand that logic exclude nonsense belief played no role. The 1919 neutral monist era ensued, but Russell found no epistemology for the logic essential to philosophy. Repairing, Chapters 4–6 solve the impasse. Reviving, Chapters 3 and 7 vigorously defend the facts about Principia. Studies of modality and entailment are viable while Principia remains a universal logic above the civil wars of the metaphysicians.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    Gregory Landini

About the author

Gregory Landini is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. His research interests include philosophy of logic, metaphysics, modal logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and the history of early analytic philosophy. His books include: Frege’s Notations: What They Are and How They Mean (2012), Russell (2010), Wittgenstein’s Apprenticeship with Russell (2007) and Russell’s Hidden Substitutional Theory (1998).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Repairing Bertrand Russell’s 1913 Theory of Knowledge

  • Authors: Gregory Landini

  • Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66356-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66355-1Published: 23 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66358-2Published: 24 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66356-8Published: 22 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5994

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 397

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic

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