Michael Potter is Professor of Logic at Cambridge University, UK, and a Life Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. His studies in the history of analytic philosophy include Reason's Nearest Kin (2000) and Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic (2009). He is also noted for work in the foundations of mathematics, including Set Theory and its Philosophy (2004).

Introduction

Part I Frege

1. Biography
2. Logic before 1879
3. Begriffsschrift I: Foundations of logic
4. Begriffsschrift II: Propositional logic
5. Begriffsschrift III: Quantification
6. Begriffsschrift IV: Identity
7. Begriffsschrift V: The ancestral
8. Early philosophy of logic
9. The Hierarchy
10. Grundlagen I: The context principle
11. Grundlagen II: Arithmetical truth
12. Grundlagen III: Numbers
13. Grundlagen IV: The formal project
14. Sense and reference I: Singular terms
15. Sense and reference II: Sentences
16. Sense anad references III: Concept-words
17. Grundgesetze I: Types
18. Grundgesetze II: Extensions
19. The Frege-Hilbert correspondence
20. Later writings
21. Frege's Legacy

Part II Russell

1. Biography
2. Bradley
3. Geometry
4. McTaggart
5. German Mathematics
6. Whitehead
7. Moore
8. Leibniz
9. Peano
10. Early logicism
11. Denoting concepts
12. The contradiction
13. On denoting
14. Truth
15. Types
16. Middle logicism
17. Acquaintance
18. Matter
19. Pre-war judgement
20. Facts
21. Late logicism
22. Post-war judgement
23. Neutral monism
24. Russell's legacy

III Wittgenstein

25. Biography
26. Facts
27. Pictures
28. Propositions
29. Sense
30. Wittgenstein's concept-script
31. Objects
32. Identity
33. Solipsism
34. Ordinary language
35. Minds
36. Logic
37. The metaphysical subject
38. Arithmetic
39. Science
40. Ethics
41. The mystical
42. The legacy of the Tractatus

IV Ramsey

43. Biography
44. Truth
45. Knowledge
46. The foundations of mathematics I: Types
47. The foundations of mathematics II: Logicism
48. Universals
49. Degrees of belief
50. Facts and propositions
51. Last papers
52. Ramsey's legacy

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