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    Frege's Cardinals Do Not Always Obey Hume's Principle
    History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (2): 127-153. 2017.
    Hume's Principle, dear to neo-Logicists, maintains that equinumerosity is both necessary and sufficient for sameness of cardinal number. All the same, Whitehead demonstrated in Principia Mathematica's logic of relations that Cantor's power-class theorem entails that Hume's Principle admits of exceptions. Of course, Hume's Principle concerns cardinals and in Principia's ‘no-classes’ theory cardinals are not objects in Frege's sense. But this paper shows that the result applies as well to the theo…Read more
  •  34
    Russell's Separation of the Logical and Semantic Paradoxes
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 3 257-294. 2004.
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    Words Without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity
    History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 204-208. 2009.
    HENRY LAYCOCK, Words Without Objects: Semantics, Ontology, and Logic for Non-Singularity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. xvi + 202pp. £35.00. ISBN 0‐19‐928171‐8. Gregory Landini, Department of Phil...
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    Review: D. Bostock. Russell’s Logical Atomism (review)
    Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2 (1). 2013.
    This is review of D. David Bostock. Russell’s Logical Atomism
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    Decomposition and analysis in Frege’s Grundgesetze
    History and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1-2): 121-139. 1996.
    Frege seems to hold two incompatible theses:(i) that sentences differing in structure can yet express the same sense; and (ii) that the senses of the meaningful parts of a complex term are determinate parts of the sense of the term. Dummett offered a solution, distinguishing analysis from decomposition. The present paper offers an embellishment of Dummett?s distinction by providing a way of depicting the internal structures of complex senses?determinate structures that yield distinct decompositi…Read more
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    Ontology Made Easy By Amie L. Thomasson
    Analysis 77 (1): 243-246. 2017.
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    How to Russell Another Meinongian
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 37 (1): 93-122. 1990.
    This article compares the theory of Meinongian objects proposed by Edward Zalta with a theory of fiction formulated within an early Russellian framework. The Russellian framework is the second-order intensional logic proposed by Nino B. Cocchiarelly as a reconstruction of the form of Logicism Russell was examining shortly after writing The Principles of Mathematics. A Russellian theory of denoting concepts is developed in this intensional logic and applied as a theory of the "objects' of fiction…Read more
  • Wittgenstein reads Russell
    In Oskari Kuusela & Marie McGinn (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
  •  96
    In his new introduction to the 1925 second edition of Principia Mathematica, Russell maintained that by adopting Wittgenstein's idea that a logically perfect language should be extensional mathematical induction could be rectified for finite cardinals without the axiom of reducibility. In an Appendix B, Russell set forth a proof. Godel caught a defect in the proof at *89.16, so that the matter of rectification remained open. Myhill later arrived at a negative result: Principia with extensionalit…Read more
  •  64
    Erik C. Banks, The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James and Russell (review)
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2): 329-333. 2016.
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    Russell's hidden substitutional theory
    Oxford University Press. 1998.
    This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica. This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the …Read more
  •  35
    Quantification Theory in *9 of Principia Mathematica
    History and Philosophy of Logic 21 (1): 57-77. 2000.
    This paper examines the quantification theory of *9 of Principia Mathematica. The focus of the discussion is not the philosophical role that section *9 plays in Principia's full ramified type-theory. Rather, the paper assesses the system of *9 as a quantificational theory for the ordinary predicate calculus. The quantifier-free part of the system of *9 is examined and some misunderstandings of it are corrected. A flaw in the system of *9 is discovered, but it is shown that with a minor repair th…Read more
  •  51
    Russell and the Ontological Argument
    Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 29 (2): 101-128. 2009.
    It is well known that in _Principia Mathematica_ Russell offers a theory of definite descriptions and holds that ‘existence’ is not a property. It is less well known that in “On Denoting” he discusses the version of Anselm’s ontological argument for God formulated by Descartes, accepting the premiss “Existence is a perfection” and assessing the argument as valid but question-begging. This is different from his later comments in _A History of Western Philosophy_ which find the argument invalid. I…Read more
  •  8
    Methodological Cartesianism
    In Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson & Javier Cumpa (eds.), Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, De Gruyter. pp. 63-98. 2014.
  •  22
    Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell
    Cambridge University Press. 2007.
    Wittgenstein's Tractatus has generated many interpretations since its publication in 1921, but over the years a consensus has developed concerning its criticisms of Russell's philosophy. In Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell, Gregory Landini draws extensively from his work on Russell's unpublished manuscripts to show that the consensus characterises Russell with positions he did not hold. Using a careful analysis of Wittgenstein's writings he traces the 'Doctrine of Showing' and the 'fun…Read more
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    Gregory Landini offers a detailed historical account of Frege's notations and the philosophical views that led Frege from Begriffssscrhrift to his mature work Grundgesetze, addressing controversial issues that surround the notations.
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    Russell to Frege, 24 May 1903: "I Believe That I Have Discovered That Classes Are Completely Superfluous"
    Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 12 (2): 160-185. 1992.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:RUSSELL TO FREGE, 24 MAY 1903: "I BELIEVE I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT CLASSES ARE ENTIRELY SUPERFLUOUS" GREGORY LANDINI Philosophy / University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242, USA It was his consideration of Cantor's proof that there is no greatest cardinal, Russell recalls in My Philosophical Development, that led in the spring of 1901 to the discovery of the paradox of the class of all classes not members of themselves. "Never glad confide…Read more
  •  22
    Beyond Analytic Philosophy (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 42 (3): 642-643. 1989.
    This book offers a thought-provoking critique of analytic philosophy focusing on four central figures--Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Quine. In Wang's view, what lies "beyond" analytic philosophy is the abandonment of Empiricist accounts of how we know and epistemological limitations on what can be known. In making the foundations of science the center of "legitimate" philosophy, Analytic Empiricism has blocked important global perspectives found, for example, in continental and oriental phi…Read more
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    Logic in Russell's Principles of Mathematics
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 37 (4): 554-584. 1996.
    Unaware of Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift, Russell's 1903 The Principles of Mathematics set out a calculus for logic whose foundation was the doctrine that any such calculus must adopt only one style of variables–entity (individual) variables. The idea was that logic is a universal and all-encompassing science, applying alike to whatever there is–propositions, universals, classes, concrete particulars. Unfortunately, Russell's early calculus has appeared archaic if not completely obscure. This pap…Read more