The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

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This book offers a comprehensive critical survey of issues of historical interpretation and evaluation in Bertrand Russell's 1918 logical atomism lectures and logical atomism itself. These lectures record the culmination of Russell's thought in response to discussions with Wittgenstein on the nature of judgement and philosophy of logic and with Moore and other philosophical realists about epistemology and ontological atomism, and to Whitehead and Russells novel extension of revolutionary nineteenth-century work in mathematics and logic.  Russell's logical atomism lectures have had a lasting impact on analytic philosophy and on Russell's contemporaries including Carnap, Ramsey, Stebbing, and Wittgenstein. Comprised of 14 original essays, this book will demonstrate how the direct and indirect influence of these lectures thus runs deep and wide.

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<p><b>Gregory Landini</b>is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of four books on the founding figures of analytic philosophy, including the groundbreaking<i>Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory</i> in 1998 - explaining how the early substitutional logic of&nbsp;Russells type-free ontology of propositions, which was planned for his never realized second&nbsp;volume of<i>The Principles of Mathematics</i> (1903) evolved into the no-propositions simple type&nbsp;formal grammar of<i>Principia Mathematica</i>(1910). Its sequel,<i>Wittgensteins Apprenticeship with&nbsp;</i><i>Russell</i>(2007) argues that Wittgensteins Tractarian doctrines were offered in alliance with&nbsp;Russells 1914 program for scientific method in philosophy with an emulation of Principias logic&nbsp;as its essence. Together with his book<i>Russell</i>(2010), all three earned Bertrand Russell Society&nbsp;Book Awards. The fourth book,<i> Freges Notations: What they are and how they mean</i> (2012) is in&nbsp;Palgrave Macmillans History of Analytic Philosophy Series. Landini has written many scholarly&nbsp;articles on Russell, including Whiteheads (Badly) Emended Principia and Typos of Principia&nbsp;Mathematica in History and Philosophy of Logic, Russellian Facts About the Slingshot in&nbsp;Axiomathes, and Zermelo and Russells Paradox: Is There a Universal Set? and Logicism and&nbsp;the Problem of Infinity: The Number of Numbers in<i>Philosophia Mathematica</i>. He is a director&nbsp;of the Bertrand Russell Society.</p><p><b>Landon D. C. Elkind</b> is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Iowa, USA. He is treasurer of the Bertrand Russell Society and of the Society for the Study of the History&nbsp;of Analytical Philosophy. His dissertation,<i>In Defense of Logical Atomism,</i> concerns both the&nbsp;necessary features of the underlying logic of logical atomism and what doctrines are essential&nbsp;to logical atomism, especially in light of its historical development.</p>

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