The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 8: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism and Other Essays 1914-19

by John Slater (Editor)

Overview

This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on 'Principia Mathematica'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040245828
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2024
Series:	The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	460
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction, PART I. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD, 1 The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914] 2 Mysticism and Logic (1914] 3 Preface to Poincare, Science and Method [1914] 4 On Scientific Method in Philosophy [1914] 5 The Ultimate Constituents of Matter (1915] 6 Letter on Sense-Data [1915] 7 Note on C. D. Broad's Article in the July Mind [1919] PART II. REVIEWS 8 Competitive Logic [1914] 9 Review of Ruge et al., Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences [1913] 10 Mr. Balfour's Natural Theology [1914] 11 Idealism on the Defensive [1917] 12 Metaphysics (1917] 13 A Metaphysical Defence of the Soul [1917] 14 Pure Reason at Konigsberg (1918] 15 Review of Broad, Perception, Physics, and Reality (1918] 16 Professor Dewey's Essays in Experimental Logic [1919] PART III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL ATOMISM 17 The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918] PART IV. TOWARDS THE ANALYSIS OF MIND 18 Manuscript Notes [1918] 19 On "Bad Passions" [1919] 20 On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean [1919]

Editorial Reviews

Only a handful of papers reprinted in this collection were written after 1959<-->Russell retired from academic philosophy for the second time after the publication of "My Philosophical Development", devoting his final years to political protest. 1949 and 1950<-->the years that Russell was appointed to the Order of Merit and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature<-->fall in the period covered by this volume. The papers include autobiographical and self-critical writings as well as papers on non-demonstrative inference, his contemporaries, metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and politics, John Stuart Mill, religion, Albert Einstein, and ordinary language philosophy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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