Volume 9 of the Routledge History of Philosophy surveys ten key topics in the Philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. Each article is written by one of the world's leading experts in that field. The papers provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject in question, and are written in a way that is accessible to philosophy undergraduates and to those outside of philosophy who are interested in these subjects. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. Among the topics covered are the philosophy of logic; Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus; a survey of logical positivism; the philosophy of physics and of science; probability theory and cybernetics.
Author(s): S. G. Shanker
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 500
Book Cover......Page 1
Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume IX......Page 2
Routledge History of Philosophy......Page 3
Title......Page 4
ISBN 0415057760......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
General editors' preface......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Chronology......Page 16
Introduction......Page 40
1 Philosophy of logic......Page 48
2 Philosophy of mathematics in the twentieth century......Page 89
3 Frege......Page 163
4 Wittgenstein's Tractatus......Page 196
5 Logical positivism......Page 232
6 The philosophy of physics......Page 253
7 The philosophy of science today......Page 274
8 Chance, cause and conduct: probability theory and the explanation of human action......Page 305
9 Cybernetics......Page 331
10 Descartes' legacy: the mechanist/vitalist debates......Page 354
Glossary......Page 415
Index......Page 483
