Rereading Russell [electronic resource]: essays in Bertrand Russell's metaphysics and epistemologyC. Wade Savage, C. Anthony Anderson |
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Russells Reasons for Ramification | 24 |
Russells Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences | 41 |
Russells Paradox Russellian Relations and the Problems of Predication and Impredicativity | 63 |
The Significance of On Denoting | 88 |
Russelling Causal Theories of Reference | 108 |
Russell on Indexicals and Scientific Knowledge | 119 |
SenseData in Russells Theories of Knowledge | 138 |
Concepts of Projectability and the Problems of Induction | 220 |
The Bayesian Epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Grover Maxwell | 234 |
Russell on Order in Time | 249 |
Cause in the Later Russell | 264 |
Portrait of a Philosopher of Science | 281 |
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Notes on Contributors | 305 |
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Russells 1913 Theory of Knowledge Manuscript | 169 |
The Concept of Structure in The Analysis of Matter | 183 |
On Induction and Russells Postulates | 200 |
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