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The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Nicholas Griffin

    1. Bertrand Russell Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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  2. Bernard Linsky

    1. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. The Influence of PM

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Principia Mathematica: The First 100 Years

      • Alasdair Urquhart
      Pages 3-20

    3. David Hilbert and Principia Mathematica

      • Reinhard Kahle
      Pages 21-34

    4. Principia Mathematica in Poland

      • Jan WoleÅ„ski
      Pages 35-55

  3. Russell’s Philosophy of Logic and Logicism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. From Logicism to Metatheory

      • Patricia Blanchette
      Pages 59-78

    3. Russell on Real Variables and Vague Denotation

      • Edwin Mares
      Pages 79-95

    4. The Logic of Classes of the No-Class Theory

      • Byeong-uk Yi
      Pages 96-129

    5. Why There Is No Frege-Russell Definition of Number

      • Jolen Galaugher
      Pages 130-160
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About this book

To mark the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, this collection of fifteen new essays by distinguished scholars considers the influence and history of PM over the last hundred years.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bertrand Russell Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Nicholas Griffin

  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

    Bernard Linsky

About the editors

Patricia Blanchette, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Jolen Galaugher, University of Iowa, USA Sébastien Gandon, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont, France Arie Hinkis lives in Israel and is the author of Proofs of the Cantor Bernstein Theorem. A Mathematical Excursion Harold T. Hodes, Cornell University, USA Reinhard Kahle, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Kevin C. Klement, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Gregory Landini, University of Iowa, USA James Levine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Edwin Mares, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dustin Tucker, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Alasdair Urquhart, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada Byeong-uk Yi, University of Toronto, Canada Jan Wole?ski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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