The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 9

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 9
Author: Bernd Frohmann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 709
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040240135

This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 26

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 26
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1073
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000216837

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 26 covers a period of transition in Russell's political life between his orthodox and sometimes pugnacious defence of the West in the early post-war, and the dissenting advocacy of nuclear disarmament and détente that started in earnest in the mid-1950s. While some of the assembled writings echo harsh prior criticism of Soviet expansionism and dictatorship, others register growing qualms about the recklessness of American foreign policy and the baneful effects on civil liberties of anti-communist hysteria inside the United States. Whether continuing to push for western rearmament, or highlighting in a more placatory vein the folly of the Cold War's divisions and rival fanaticisms, Russell's paramount objective was avoiding a war that threatened global catastrophe. Suspended between fear and hope, he expounded his evolving political concerns–and much else besides, including autobiographical reflections and typically common-sense guidance for living well–in a constant flow of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to editors, radio broadcasts and discussions and, of special note, a Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Russell also completed two lecture tours of the United States (the last of many), as well as a landmark such visit to Australia. All three of these journeys, and the textual record they left, are examined in depth using manuscript material and unpublished correspondence from the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University, which is mined extensively throughout the volume.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 21

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 21
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 977
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040244947

In Collected Papers 21 Bertrand Russell grapples with the dilemma that confronted all opponents of militarism and war in the 1930s—namely, what was the most politically and morally appropriate response to international aggression. How to Keep the Peace contains some of Russell’s best-known essays, such as the famous Auto-obituary and his treatment of The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed. Like the sixteen previous volumes in Routledge’s critical edition of Russell’s shorter writings, however, Collected Papers 21 also includes a number of unpublished manuscripts from the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University. Moreover, it recovers for Russell scholars and general readers alike a rich vein of material that has previously appeared in print only in obscure or long-defunct newspaper and periodical publications.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 5

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 5
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1057
Release: 2015-07-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317341775

This volume of Bertrand Russell's Collected Papers finds Russell focused on writing Principia Mathematica during 1905–08. Eight previously unpublished papers shed light on his different versions of a substitutional theory of logic, with its elimination of classes and relations, during 1905-06. A recurring issue for him was whether a type hierarchy had to be part of a substitutional theory. In mid-1907 he began writing up the final version of Principia, now using a ramified theory of types, and eleven unpublished drafts from 1907-08 deal with this. Numerous letters show his thoughts on the process. The volume's 80-page introduction covers the evolution of his logic from 1896 until 1909, when volume I of Principia went to the printer.

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6
Author: John Slater
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1040231586

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 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.

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition

Early Analytic Philosophy - New Perspectives on the Tradition
Author: Sorin Costreie
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2016-01-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319242148

This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, or the ‘golden trio’. The book shows how these ‘old’ ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical debates and to what extent these debates echo the original ideas. The collection aim is twofold: to better understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting, and to systematically examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions today. Divided into five sections, the book first sets the stage and offers a general introduction to the background influences, as well as delimitations of the initial foundational positions. This first section contains two papers dedicated to the discussion of realism and the status of science at that time, followed by two papers that tackle the epistemic status of logical laws. The next three sections constitute the core of the volume, each being dedicated to the most important figures in the early analytic tradition: Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. The last section gathers several essays that discuss either the relation between two or more analytic thinkers, or various important concepts such as ‘predicativism’ and ‘arbitrary function’, or the principles of abstraction and non-contradiction.​

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 8

The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 8
Author: John Slater
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 104024582X

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

On Education

On Education
Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1985-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780415109086

'With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement