Title
Logicism in Logical Empiricism
Abstract
Logicism, as developed by Frege and Russell, is the thesis that pure mathematics is part of logic. While the logicist thesis was a central doctrine in the philosophy of mathematics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it did not present a uniform research project. Different scholars used the term “logicism” to describe different practices of reducing mathematical theories to higher-order logic or set theory.2 This holds true, in particular, of work by philosophers related to modern empiricism. Logicism presents one of the cornerstones of logical empiricism.3 At the same time, the views defended by Carnap, Hahn, and Hempel (among others) differ significantly from Frege’s and Russell’s original thesis.
Keywords
Mathematical PhilosophyPhilosophyLogicism
Object type
Language
English [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1428461
Is contained in
Title
Origins and Varieties of Logicism
On the Logico-Philosophical Foundations of Mathematics
ISBN
9780367230050
Editor
Francesca Boccuni
Andrea Sereni
Publisher
Routledge , 2021-11-30
From page
1
To page
418
Version type
Date available
2022-12-01
Date accepted
2019-12-18
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