Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-645) and index.
Contents:
volume 1. The founding giants -- volume 1. part 1. Frege. Foundations of logic, language, and mathematics -- Critical challenges -- part 2. G.E. Moore. Becoming G.E. Moore -- Goodness and the foundations of ethics -- Truth, skepticism, perception, and knowledge -- The mixed legacy and lost opportunities of Moore's Ethics -- part 3. Russell. Early Russell: logic, philosophy, and The Principles of Mathematics -- Russell's theory of descriptions: "On denoting" -- Truth, falsity, and judgment -- Russell's logicism -- Our knowledge of the external world -- The philosophy of logical atomism.
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