Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory

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Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory is written by Gregory Landini and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195353722 (ISBN 10) and 9780195353723 (ISBN 13).

This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica. This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the substitutional theory reveals the unity of Russell's philosophy of logic and offers new avenues for a genuine solution of the paradoxes plaguing Logicism.