Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell

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Author: Gregory Landini

ISBN-10: 0521870232

ISBN-13: 9780521870238

Category: European & American Philosophy

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A controversial and revisionist account of the intellectual relationship between Russell and Wittgenstein.

Preface     ixRereading Russell and Wittgenstein     1Two dogmas of Russellian interpretation     5Logical fictions of Russell     11Logical atomism     24Logical atomism as a research program     25The logical independence of the facts that are truth-makers     40Acquaintance with logical objects     53Russell's paralysis     65Retreat from Pythagoras     72My fundamental idea     77Showing as radical Russellianism     79Ideal versus ordinary language     90Sub specie aeternitatis     94Russell's rejection of Showing     100Kicking away the ladder     103Logic as if tautologous     107Logic as if decidable     112Scaffolding     118Wittgenstein's N-operator     125Quantification and the N-operator     134Tractarian logicism     147Ramified types as scaffolding in Russell and Wittgenstein     150Equations versus tautologies     158Numbers as exponents of operations     170Principia's second edition     189Extensionality and neutral monism     192The oracle on Reducibility     201Slipshod notations?     208Ramsey's extensional functions     214Logic as the essence of philosophy     111Ontology as meaningless     230Ontology as structured variables     237Carnap versus Quine on ontology     241Return to Pythagoras     245Exclusive quantifiers     253Modality in the Tractatus     266Bibliography     285Index     297