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1 A. Works by Russell The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 4, Foundations of Logic: , ed. by Alsdair Urquhard (London: Routledge, 1994). The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 6, Logic and Philosophy Papers: , ed. John G. Slater (London, Routledge, 1992). The Principles of Mathematics, (PoM) second-edition (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., second edition1937, 1964). First edition (London: Allen & Unwin, 1903). On Denoting, in Essays in Analysis, pp First published in Mind 14 (1905), pp On Fundamentals, Collected Papers Vol. 4, pp "On The Logic of Relations," in Logic and Knowledge Essays, pp First published as "Sur la logique des relations," Rivista di Mathematica, Vol. vii, (1901), pp On the Relation of Mathematics to Logic, in Essays in Analysis, pp First published as Sur la Relation des Mathématiques la Logistique, in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 13, (1905) pp On Some Difficulties in the Theory of Transfinite Numbers and Order Types, in Essays in Analysis, pp First published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 4 (March 1906), pp On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations, in Essays in Analysis, pp Manuscript received by the London Mathematical Society on 24 April On Insolubila and Their Solution By Symbolic Logic, in Essays in Analysis, pp First published as Les Paradoxes de la Logique, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 14 (1906) pp Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types, in Logic and Knowledge, pp First published in The American Journal of Mathematics 30 (1908), pp Philosophy (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1927). Principia Mathematica (coauthored by A. N Whitehead), second edition (Cambridge, 1925, 1962); First edition, Cambridge, Vol. 1 (1910), Vol. 2 (1911), Vol. 3 (1913).

2 2 Principia Mathematica to *56 (Cambridge, 1964). Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (London: Allen & Unwin, 1919, 1953). My Philosophical Development (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959). The Art of Philosophizing (New York: Philosophical Library, 1968). B. Books and Articles Blackwell, Kenneth. The Early Wittgenstein and the Middle Russell, in Irving Block ed., Perspectives on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1981), p. 27, fn. 3. Boolos, George The Advantages of Honest Toil over Theft, in Alexander George, ed., Mathematics and Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp Church, Alonzo. (1956).Introduction to Mathematical Logic (New Jersey: Princeton University Church, Alonzo Comparison of Russell s Resolution of the Semantical Antinomies with that of Tarski, Journal of Symbolic Logic 41, pp Church, Alonzo. (1984) Russell s Theory of the Identity of Propositions, Philosophia Naturalis 21, pp Cocchiarella, Nino The Development of the Theory of Logical Types and the Notion of a Logical Subject in Russell s Early Philosophy, Synthese 45 (1980), pp Reprinted in Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press), pp Cocchiarella, Nino Logical Atomism and Modal Logic, in Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press), pp Cocchiarella, Nino Logical Atomism, Nominalism and Modal Logic, Philosophia, Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 4, (1974), pp Reprinted in Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press), pp Cocchiarella, Nino Russell s Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences, in Nino Cocchiarella, Logical Studies in Early Analytic Philosophy, (Columbus, Ohio State University Press, ), pp Copi, Irving The Theory of Logical Types (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

3 3 Galaugher, Jolen Substitution s Unsolved Insolubilia, Russell 3, pp Geach, P. T Frege s Way Out Mind 65, pp Frege, Gottlob The Foundations of Arithmetic, translated by J. L. Austin (Northwestern University Press, 1980). First published as Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik: eine Logisch-Mathematische Untersuchung ber den Begriff der Zahl, (Breslau, 1884). Frege, Gottlob Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Vol. I (Jena, 1893), Vol. II (Jena 1903) Reprinted by Darmstadt Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1962). Frege, Gottlob On Concept and Object, in eds., Peter Geach and Max, Black, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977), pp First published as Über Begriff und Gegenstand in Vierteljarsschrift f r wissenschaftliche Philosophie, vol. XIV 1892, pp Frege, Gottlob Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence, edited by Gottfried Gabriel, Hans Hermes, Friedrich Kambartel, Christian Thiel, Albert Verrart, and abridged from the German edition by Brian McGuinness and translated by Hans Kaal (Chicago: Frege, Gottlob The Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition of the System, translated with an editor s introduction by Montgomery Furth (Berkeley: University of California Griffin, Nicholas Russell on the Nature of Logic Synthese 45, pp Griffin, Nicholas. ed., 2003 The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell (Cambridge Grattan-Guinness, Ivor Dear Russell- Dear Jourdain (London: Duckworth). Grattan-Guinness, Ivor In Search for Mathematical Roots : Logic, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor Through Russell to Gödel (Princeton Gödel, Kurt Russell s Mathematical Logic, in ed., Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (Evanston: Northwestern University Press), pp Hatcher, William The Logical Foundaions of Mathematics (Oxford: Pergamon Hazen, Allen A Constructive Proper Extension of Ramified Type Theory; The Logic of Principia Mathematica, Second Edition, Appendix B, in ed., Godehard Link, One Hundred Years of Russell s Paradox (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter), pp Holroyd Michael Lytton Strachey (London: Heinemann)

4 4 Landini, Gregory The Definability of the Set of Natural Numbers in the 1925 Principia Mathematica, Journal of Philosophical Logic 25, pp Landini, Gregory. 1998a Russell s Hidden Substitutional Theory (New York: Oxford University Landini, Gregory. 1998b On Denoting Against Denoting, Russell 18, pp Landini, Gregory Quantification Theory in *9 of Principia Mathematica, History and Philosophy of Logic 21, pp Landini, Gregory. 2004a Logicism s Insolubilia and Their Solution By Russell s Substitutional Theory, in ed., Godehard Link, One Hundred Years of Russell s Paradox (New York: De Gruyter), pp Landini, Gregory. 2004b Russell s Separation of the Logical and Semantic Paradoxes, in Philippe de Rouilhan, ed., Russell en héritage, (Revue Internationale Philosophie 3, pp Landini, Gregory Quantification Theory in *8 of Principia Mathematica and the Empty Domain, History and Philosophy of Logic, 25, pp Landini, Gregory Wittgenstein s Apprenticeship With Russell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Landini, Gregory. (2013a) Zermelo and Russell s Paradox: Is there a Universal set? Philosophica Mathematica, vol. 21, pp Landini, Gregory. (2013b) Review of Bernard Linsky, The Evolution of Prinicpia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell s Manuscripts and Notes fo the Second Edition, History and Philosophy of Logic 34, pp Landini, Gregory Whitehead s Badly Emended Principia, History and Philosophy of Logic 37, pp Linsky, Bernard Russell s Metaphysical Logic (Stanford: CSLI Publications). Lowe, Victor Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work. Volume II: edited by J. B. Schneewind (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Monk, Ray. Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness (The Free Press, 2001). Myhill, John The Undefinability of the Set of Natural Numbers in the Ramified Principia, in George Nakhnikian, ed., Bertrand Russell s Philosophy (New York:

5 5 Barnes & Noble), pp Quine, W.V.O Quantification and the Empty Domain, Journal of Symbolic Logic 19, pp Quine, W.V.O. Frege s Way Out Mind 64 (1955), pp Quine, W.V.O Set Theory and Its Logic (Cambridge: Harvard Ramsey, Frank.1925 The Foundations of Mathematics, in ed., R. B. Braithwaite ed., The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Essays by Frank Plumpton Ramsey (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1931), pp First published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 25 (1925), pp Rouilhan (de), Philippe Russell et le cercle des paradoxes (Paris: Presses Universitaries de France), p Schmid, Anne-Françoise ed., with commentary, Bertrand Russell: Correspondence sur la Philosophie, la Logique et la Politique avec Louis Couturat ( Paris: édition Kimé, volume I, II). Van Heijenoort, Jean Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language, Synthese 17, pp Whitehead, A. N An Introduction to Mathematics (London: Williams and Norgate). Wittgenstein, Ludwig Notebooks , ed. by G. H. Von Wight and G. E. M. Anscombe, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979). Wolfe, Mays Recollections of Wittgenstein, in K. T. Fann (ed), Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Man and His Philosophy (New Jersey). Gregory Landini gregory-landiniuiowa.edu University of Iowa U.S.A.

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