Genna, Caterina (Author)
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 54
Pages: 445-454
1903 was a particularly significant year for the history of European culture, both in term of the history of scientific thought and the history of philosophical thought. At Trinity College in Cambridge, George Edward Moore published the article The Refutation of Idealism in «Mind» magazine, while Bertrand Russell published The Principles of Mathematics. With these two works, besides discarding the mainstream neo-idealism in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century, Moore and Russell promoted the new current of neo-positivism, from which logical empiricism and the so-called “scientific philosophy” was to be derived and cultivated within the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Circle. Specifically, mathematical logic, developed and explained both in The Principles of Mathematics and in the Principia mathematica (of Russell and Whitehead), was to form the basis for the “philosophy of logical atomism,” anticipating the idea of a unique knowledge that encompasses all the components of human culture. Therefore Russell’s The Philosophy of Logical Atomism can be compared with Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus, which in terms of the philosophy of language builds a in close relationship with the philosophy of science.
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