Greetings all, This coming Monday, April 28, 1.00-2.30 in the philosophy common room, Warren Goldfarb, Harvard University, will talk to us about "Wittgenstein against Logicism."
Abstract: Wittgenstein's characterization of logical operations in the Tractatus turns out to include more than first-order quantification theory, in its allowance of certain infinitary truth-functions. This enables Wittgenstein to dispense with the Frege-Russell apparatus for the logicist reduction. Reflection on the philosophical grounds for his characterization, moreover, brings to light a deep divergence from Frege and Russell at their starting point, namely, how they understand the distinction between the logical and the psychological. The issue clarifies Wittgenstein's basic stance in philosophy of mathematics, which persists through his later work. See you there.... > > Dr. Kristie Miller Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney, Australia Room 411, A18 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (work) 02 9036 9663 Ph: (mobile) 0432 275 286 http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home%20Page.html _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
