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Conceptual Engineering or Revisionary Conceptual Analysis? The Case of Russell's Metaphilosophy Based on Principia Mathematica's Logic
Landon Elkind
Journal:

Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie / Volume 60 / Issue 3 / December 2021

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

10 March 2022, pp. 447-474
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Conceptual engineers have made hay over the differences of their metaphilosophy from those of conceptual analysts. In this article, I argue that the differences are not as great as conceptual engineers have, perhaps rhetorically, made them seem. That is, conceptual analysts asking ‘What is X?’ questions can do much the same work that conceptual engineers can do with ‘What is X for?’ questions, at least if conceptual analysts self-understand their activity as a revisionary enterprise. I show this with a study of Russell's metaphilosophy, which was just such a revisionary conception of conceptual analysis.

4 - Newton and the Law of Gravity
from Case Study I - The Origins of Newton’s Laws of Motion and of Gravity
Malcolm S. Longair, University of Cambridge
Book:

Theoretical Concepts in Physics

Published online:

27 March 2020

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16 April 2020, pp 48-72
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Newton codified the laws of motion and gravity, their primitive forms being enunciated in 1665-66. Using Kepler's laws, he discovered the inverse square law of gravity and went on to show that gravity is the same force which holds the planets in their orbits, as well as that which causes apples to fall to the ground. Newton was a brilliant experimentalist who invented the Newtonian, reflecting telescope which eliminated the aberrations of refracting telescopes such as those built by Galileo. Newton's researches culminated in the publication of his revolutionary Principia Mathematica of 1687. He devoted as much effort to chemical (or alchemical) analyses and to the interpretation of ancient texts and the scriptures. He was also the inventor of differential and integral calculus.

RUSSELL AND GÖDEL
ALASDAIR URQUHART
Journal:

Bulletin of Symbolic Logic / Volume 22 / Issue 4 / December 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

30 December 2016, pp. 504-520

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December 2016
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This paper surveys the interactions between Russell and Gödel, both personal and intellectual. After a description of Russell’s influence on Gödel, it concludes with a discussion of Russell’s reaction to the incompleteness theorems.