Search results for "Logicism"

Philosophy of Mathematics and Ontological Commitment

2000

This paper concerns Quine's classification of philosophies of mathematics as sketched in "On what there is" and offers a new reading of Quine's view. In his famous paper Quine defines three positions: Realism, Conceptualism, and Nominalism. Each of them, he says, has its modern expression, respectively, in Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism. According to Quine these foundational positions can be accepted or rejected on a clear and objective basis, according to their distinctive ontological commitments. Consistent with his own criterion for ontological commitment (buttressed by his view on impredicative definitions), Quine adopts the Realist (or the Platonist) position in mathematics. Lat…

STEFANO DONATI. I Fondamenti della Matematica nel Logicismo di Bertrand Russell [The Foundations of Mathematics in the Logicism of Bertrand Russell]

2008

Bertrand Russell

2015

Bertrand Russell has been one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century. The importance of his work can not be confined to a particular thematic area such as mathematical logic or philosophy of language. Extraordinary vital, extremely curious and with a very acute intellect, he has produced an immense body of work. Bertrand Russell è stato uno dei filosofi più influenti del '900. L'importanza del suo lavoro non può essere confinata ad un particolare ambito tematico quale la logica matematica o la filosofia del linguaggio. Dotato di una vitalità straordinaria, di una grande curiosità e di un intelletto acutissimo, la sua produzione scientifica è sterminata.