The Philosophy of Mathematics
Jager, Ronald · 2014
Russell&s;s logical investigations in the foundations of mathematics produced a fund of novel ideas, techniques, and possibilities. His powers of conception and exposition have made the subject an engaging area of study for generations of students. His preoccupation with the connections between logic and metaphysics (in which he was joined by Wittgenstein), and between logic and mathematics (in which he was joined by Whitehead) made the philosophy of logic into a central topic of philosophy itself. In these areas Russell was at once technical innovator, international scholar, expositor, popularizer - and philosopher: a combination sufficiently rare so that even his brilliant predecessors, for example Frege, Peirce, and Leibniz, could not have had so pervasive an influence, however they deserved it. Indeed, perhaps no logician besides Aristotle has.