[Revised entry by Bernard Linsky and Andrew David Irvine on January 9, 2026.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
This entry briefly describes the history and significance of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell’s monumental but little read classic of symbolic logic, Principia Mathematica (PM), first published in 1910 – 1913. The content of PM is described in a section-by-section synopsis, stated in modernized logical notation and described following the introductory notes from each of the three volumes. The original notation is presented in a companion article of this Encyclopedia,…
Poststructuralism as a Regime of Truth: Foucault and the Paradox of Philosophical Authority
Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
