The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 937
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040238874

This volume collects together Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of My Philosophical Development in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with political writings. In this volume there are a handful of papers dated later than 1959, and all of these were certainly written by Russell himself.This volume contains Russell's writings on diverse philosophical interests, including autobiographical and self-critical papers, critiques of other philosophers and his controversial opinions on Christianity.

Last Philosophical Testament

Last Philosophical Testament
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 944
Release: 1997
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415094092

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 copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13

Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 650
Release: 1992
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415084468

The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge of the External World. In October 1910 he began teaching at Cambridge, having accepted an appointment as lecturer in logic and the principles of mathematics at Trinity College for a term of five years. A year later Ludwig Wittgenstein began to attend his lectures. Within a few months he was influencing Russell's philosophical thinking as much as, or more than, Russell was influencing his.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134245254

Détente or Destruction, 1955-57 continues publication of Routledge's multi-volume critical edition of Bertrand Russell's shorter writings. Between September 1955 and November 1957 Russell published some sixty-one articles, reviews, statements, contributions to books and letters to editors, over fifty of which are contained in this volume. The texts, several of them hitherto unpublished, reveal the deepening of Russell's commitment to the anti-nuclear struggle, upon which he embarked in the previous volume of Collected Papers (Man's Peril, 1954-55). Continuing with the theme of nuclear peril, this volume contains discussion of nuclear weapons, world peace, prospects for disarmament and British-Soviet friendship against the backdrop of the Cold War. One of the key papers in this volume is Russell's message to the inaugural conference of the Pugwash movement, which Russell was instrumental in launching and which became an influential, independent forum of East-West scientific cooperation and counsel on issues as an internationally agreed nuclear test-ban. In addition to the issues of war and peace, Russell, now in his eighties, continued to take an interest in a wide variety of themes. Russell not only addresses older controversies over nationalism and empire, religious belief and American civil liberties, he also confronts head-on the new and pressing matters of armed intervention in Hungary and Suez, and of the manufacture and testing of the British hydrogen bomb. This volume includes seven interviews ranging from East-West Relations after the Geneva conference to a Meeting with Russell.

A Fresh Look at Empiricism

A Fresh Look at Empiricism
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 954
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415094085

Volume 10 brings together Russell's writings on ethics, politics, religion and academic philosophy.During the period covered by this volume, Bertrand Russell first retired from and then resumed his philosophical career. In 1927 he published two philosophy books, The Analysis of Matter and An Outline of Philosophy. His next book in academic philosophy, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, was not published until 1940.Yet, Russell published a significant amount of essays and popular books between 1927 and 1946, mostly to finance the running of Beacon Hill School, and his growing family. Those years also saw his break-up with Dora Russell, his marriage to Patricia (Peter) Spence and a move of the family to the United States.Volume 10 brings together Russell's writings on ethics, politics, religion and academic philsophy. It is an invaluable guide to the thought and development of one of the most famous philosophers of this century.

Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell

Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1014
Release: 1927
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

With a new introduction by the author, Mr. Russell personally selected the contents of this volume, which includes the two essays, A free man's worship and Mysticism and logic, printed in full, significant chapters from Education and the good life, Proposed roads to freedom, Why men fight, The ABC of relativity and much other material. -- Publisherdescription.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 14

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 14
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040240143

During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to developments in the conflict. These documents bear witness to Russell's growing commitment to pacifism, and reveal the development of the patterns of political argument, rhetoric and activism which were to characterise his work throughout his life.