The Evolution of Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell’s Manuscripts & Notes for the Secone Edition

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ISBN: 9781107003279
Author/Editor: Bernard Linsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Year: 2011

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Originally published in 1910, Principia Mathematica led to the development of mathematical logic and computers and thus to information sciences. It became a model for modern analytic philosophy and remains an important work. In the late 1960s the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Canada obtained Russell’s papers, letters and library. These archives contained the manuscripts for the new Introduction and three Appendices that Russell added to the second edition in 1925. Also included was another manuscript, ‘The Hierarchy of Propositions and Functions’, which was divided up and re-used to create the final changes for the second edition. These documents provide fascinating insight, including Russell’s attempts to work out the theorems in the flawed Appendix B, ‘On Induction’. An extensive introduction describes the stages of the manuscript material on the way to print and analyzes the proposed changes in the context of the development of symbolic logic after 1910.

Discoveries from the archives resolve several scholarly puzzles about the second edition
The first extensive use of modern LaTeX typesetting to reproduce the original symbols from Principia Mathematica
Provides an overview of the field of logic in the period from 1910 to 1925

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Weight 1 kg

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Year of Publication

2011

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Writing the second edition 3. Logic since the first edition 4. Notation and logic 5. Improvements in the new edition 6. Induction and types in Appendix B 7. The reception of the second edition 8. The list of definitions for Carnap Introduction to the second edition Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Hierarchy of propositions and functions Amended list of propositions: notes Bibliography Index.

Author

Bernard Linsky

ISBN/ISSN

9781107003279

Binding

Hardback

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1

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

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