Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russell summarizes the significance of the momentous work of mathematicians in the late nineteenth-century. He further describes his own philosophy of mathematics, Logicism (the view that all mathematical truths are logical truths), and his earlier, influential work solving the paradoxes that plagued mathematical foundations, which crystallized after ten years of dogged effort into the co-authored (with Alfred North Whitehead), three-volume 'Principia Mathematica'. Russell emphasizes the importance of a doctrine of types, the truth of Logicism, and the clarity brought to the philosophy of mathematics by the method of logical analysis. (summary by Landon D. C. Elkind)

Genre(s): Philosophy, Modern

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 01 The Series of Natural Numbers Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 02 Definition of Number Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 03 Finitude and Mathematical Induction Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 04 The Definition of Order Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 05 Kinds of Relations Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 06 Similarity of Relations Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 07 Rational, Real, and Complex Numbers Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 08 Infinite Cardinal Numbers Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 09 Infintie Series of Ordinals Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 10 Limits and Continuity Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 11 Limits and Continuity of Functions Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 12 Selections and the Multiplicative Axiom Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 13 The Axiom of Infinity and Logical Types Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 14 Incompatibility and the Theory of Deduction Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 15 Propositional Functions Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 16 Descriptions Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 17 Classes Landon D. C. Elkind
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Play 18 Mathematics and Logic Landon D. C. Elkind
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