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First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell’s views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic. The author, Jan Dejnožka, draws together Russell’s comments and perspectives from throughout his canon in order to demonstrate a coherent view on logical modality and logical relevance. To achieve this, Dejnožka explores questions including whether Russell has a possible worlds logic, Rescher’s case against Russell, Russell’s three levels of modality and the motives and origins of Russell’s theory of modality.
First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell’s views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic. The author, Jan Dejnožka, draws together Russell’s comments and perspectives from throughout his canon in order to demonstrate a coherent view on logical modality and logical relevance. To achieve this, Dejnožka explores questions including whether Russell has a possible worlds logic, Rescher’s case against Russell, Russell’s three levels of modality and the motives and origins of Russell’s theory of modality.
Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus. No other single philosopher in the last 200 years can be said to have created so much and influenced so many. His Principia Mathematica, written with A. N. Whitehead, ranks as one of the greatest books on logic since Aristotle. His philosophical work on language, meaning, logic, mind, and metaphysics formed the basis of 20th-century philosophy. Russell was active in numerous political movements of liberation and peace, and his popular writings, including the best-selling History of Western Philosophy, won the Nobel prize in literature in 1950. Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy offers a comprehensive, current guide to the many facets of Russell's work. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms, Russell's impact on philosophy and related fields is made accessible to the reader in this must-have reference.
Mathematics in and behind Russell's logicism, and its reception / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Russell's philosophical background / Nicholas Griffin -- Russell and Moore, 1898-1905 / Richard L. Cartwright -- Russell and Frege / Michael Beaney -- Bertrand Russell's logicism / Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine -- The theory of descriptions / Peter Hylton -- Russell's substitutional theory / Gregory Landini -- The theory of types / Alasdair Urquhart -- Russell's method of analysis / Paul Hager -- Russell's neutral monism / R.E. Tully -- The metaphysics of logical atomism / Bernard Linksy -- Russell's structuralism and the absolute description of the world / William Demopoulos -- From knowledge by acquaintance to knowledge by causation / Thomas Baldwin -- Russell, experience, and the roots of science / A.C. Grayling -- Bertrand Russell: moral philosopher or unphilosophical moralist? / Charles R. Pidgen.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:"Dejnozka's erudition continues to astound me." - Nicholas Griffin.As Canada Research Chair and Director of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre at McMaster University, Professor Griffin directs the editing of the ongoing editions of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, currently at 16 volumes. He also edited The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell, and has written several books and articles."Dejnozka challenges the reader to open his mind for a new interpretation of Russell's work, in particular that relevance notions have a greater place in his philosophy of logic than has been stressed before. Dejnozka's work is full of material which stimulates one to rethink Russell's philosophy of logic, and it is greatly to the author's credit that he brings to light such a wealth of crucial issues in the history and philosophy of logic." - Shahid Rahman.Professor Rahman teaches at the Université de Lille (France). He has served as dean and supervised many dissertations. He is the author of several books and the editor of several anthologies in logic and the philosophy of logic. He recently edited a book on Hugh MacColl. He has also written many articles and reviews, and read papers at various congresses.PUBLISHED REVIEW:"Dejnozka's defense of his view is well articulated and strongly supported by citing thinkers of the caliber of Quine, Russell and Wittgenstein, among others. Moreover, the defense is presented in a clear and explicit way, making evident the role played by relevance logic and diagrams.... Finally, a very positive aspect is the presence of many explanatory notes, placed at the end of the book, that shed light on the discussion in the text." Edgar L. B. Almeida, Logic and Logical Philosophy (2013).PUBLISHED REVIEW:"The main argument of the book is interesting for suggesting that truth ground containment, i.e. the classical notion of consequence, embodies a meaningful notion of a connection between the assumptions and the conclusion of a valid argument.... I do think that the book's main claims hold.... Yes, classical validity can be seen as involving a...notion of containment - containment of truth grounds. Yes, this notion can be found in the writings of outstanding modern classical logicians such as Wittgenstein or Russell. Yes, the relevantist's notion of relevance...can be seen as a species of a broader genus. Perhaps the greatest merit of the present book is that it emphasizes these points explicitly." Igor Sedlár, Organon F (2014).BOOK DESCRIPTION:In the first volume of their monumental work, Entailment, Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap say that the "modern classical tradition[,] stemming from Frege and Whitehead-Russell, gave no consideration whatsoever to the classical notion of relevance." But just what is this classical notion? I argue that the relevance tradition is implicitly most deeply concerned with the containment of truth-grounds. Thus modern classical logicians such as Peirce, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine are implicit relevantists on the deepest level. In showing this, I reunite two fields of logic which have become basically separated from each other: relevance logic and diagram logic. I argue that there are two main concepts of relevance, intensional and extensional. The first is that of the relevantists. The second is the concept of truth-ground containment as following from in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. I show that this second concept belongs to the diagram tradition of showing that the premisses contain the conclusion by the fact that the conclusion is diagrammed in the very act of diagramming the premisses. I argue that the extensional concept is primary, with at least five usable modern classical filters or constraints, and indefinitely many secondary intensional filters or constraints. In this way, I argue for a major reunion of purpose in logic between relevantists and modern classical logicians.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: Logical relevance is an essential feature of evidence for both John Maynard Keynes and Bertrand Russell - and also for the last five centuries of English evidence law. If it is not relevant, it is not evidence. If it is not evidence, it is not relevant. It has been widely held that Keynes himself invented the theory that probability is degree of logical relevance. This book is the first study of the legal origins of Keynes' and Russell's logicist theories of probability. Like Dejnozka's other books, this book upends received thought. Following J. L. Montrose, whom he anthologizes, the legal scholar William Twining denies that some of the great evidence law writers had relevance rules. Dejnozka quotes and discusses the relevance rules of those writers. The Keynes scholar Robert Skidelsky holds that Keynes himself discovered the relation between probability and logical relevance. Dejnozka quotes and discusses that relation as affirmed throughout the last five centuries of English evidence law. Most relevantists were members of the Inner Temple law bar, and Keynes was too. // PRAISE FOR THE BOOK 1: "Jan Dejnozka's Logical Relevance in English Evidence Law innovatively explores the links between the evolution of the Anglo-American law of evidence and the philosophical investigations of Keynes and Russell. He provides a fascinating interdisciplinary examination between two disciplines not ordinarily studied together. Dejnozka's study should be of interest to scholars interested in evidence, regardless of discipline." - Barbara J. Shapiro. // Barbara J. Shapiro is professor emerita of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. Her books include _Beyond Reasonable Doubt and Probable Cause: Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence_ (University of California Press) and _Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relationships Between Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature_ (Princeton University Press). // PRAISE FOR THE BOOK 2: "Dejnozka challenges the reader to open his mind for a new interpretation of Russell's work, in particular that relevance notions have a greater place in his philosophy of logic than has been stressed before. Dejnozka's work is full of material which stimulates one to rethink Russell's philosophy of logic, and it is greatly to the author's credit that he brings to light such a wealth of crucial issues in the history and philosophy of logic." - Shahid Rahman. // Shahid Rahman is exceptional professor of logic and epistemology at the Université de Lille 3 (Charles de Gaulle). He was Director (for the French side) of the du ANR-DFG Franco-German project 2012-2015 (Lille (MESHS)/Konstanz, Prof M. Armgardt): Théorie du Droit et Logique / Jurisprudenz und Logik. His recent papers include "Conditionals and Legal Reasoning: Elements of a Logic of Law," HAL 2017 (with Bernadette Dango), and "Unfolding Parallel Reasoning in Islamic Jurisprudence: Epistemic and Dialectical Meaning in Abū Ishāq al-Shīrāzī's System of Co-Relational Inferences of the Occasioning Factor," Cambridge Journal of Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 2018 (with Muhammad Iqbal). // PRAISE FOR THE BOOK 3: "I have spent my career researching the role of relevance in logic, and I found this book highly "relevant." It points out the profound role that English evidence law had in influencing two of the founders of probability theory and logic, Keynes and Russell. It is well written and very interesting. -J. Michael Dunn. // J. Michael Dunn is professor emeritus of computer science and informatics, Oscar Ewing professor emeritus of philosophy, and founding dean emeritus of the School of Informatics at Indiana University. He was a co-editor of _Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity_, volume 2 (Princeton University Press).
This is Volume XXII of twenty-two in a collection on 20th Century Philosophy. Originally published in 1979, this volume attempts to assess some of the achievements of Bertrand Russell in philosophy, logic and mathematics, ethics and politics.