Russell´s Early Type Theory and the Paradox of Propositions

André Fuhrmann

doi:10.5007/%x

Russell´s Early Type Theory and the Paradox of Propositions

Autores

André Fuhrmann University of Konstanz and Universidade São Judas Tadeu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Resumo

The paradox of propositiOns, presented in Appenclix B of Russell's The Principies of Mathernatics (1903), is usually taken as Russell's principal motive, at the time, for moving from a simple to a ramified theory of types. I argue that this view is mistaken. A closer study of Russell's correspondence with Frege reveals that Russell carne to adopt a very different resolution of the paradox, calling into question not the simplicity of his early type theory but the simplicity of his early theory of propositions.

Biografia do Autor

André Fuhrmann, University of Konstanz and Universidade São Judas Tadeu

Possui graduação em Filosofia pela Universidade de Marburg (1983), mestrado em Filosofia pela University Of St Andrews (1984), doutorado em Filosofia pelo Institute Of Advanced Studies - Australian National University (1988) e livre docência pela Universität Konstanz (1994). Atualmente é professor titular na Universitat Frankfurt am Main.