Logic as Universal Science

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.

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ANSSI KORHONEN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is specialized in conceptual and historical issues relating to the development of analytic philosophy.

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Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Russell's Early Logicism: What was it about? Kant and Russell on the Mathematical Method Russell and Kant on the Synthetic A priori Russell's Ontological Logic Russell and the Bolzanian Conception of Logic Notes Bibliography Index