The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russell's writings brings together his definitive essays from the period 1903 to 1959. It covers the most fertile and the most lasting work on every significant area he published in. |
Contents
PREFACE BY BERTRAND RUSSELL | 15 |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF BERTRAND RUSSELL | 21 |
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT BERTRAND RUSSELL | 27 |
My Mental Development | 37 |
An Autobiographical Epitome | 51 |
5 | 63 |
The Metaphysicians Nightmare | 100 |
Sentences Syntax and Parts of Speech | 118 |
The Expanding Mental Universe | 391 |
PART X | 399 |
Education | 401 |
The Aims of Education | 413 |
Emotion and Discipline | 430 |
The Functions of a Teacher | 435 |
PART XI | 443 |
The Reconciliation of Individuality and Citizenship | 445 |
The Uses of Language | 131 |
12 | 137 |
Symbolic Logic | 145 |
Preface to Principia Mathematica | 156 |
Introduction to Principia Mathematica | 161 |
Summary of Part III Principia Mathematica | 164 |
Summary of Part IV Principia Mathematica | 165 |
Summary of Part V Principia Mathematica | 167 |
Summary of Part VI Principia Mathematica | 170 |
Introduction to the Second Edition Principia Mathematica | 172 |
Mathematics and Logic | 175 |
The Validity of Inference | 184 |
Deweys New Logic | 191 |
John Dewey | 207 |
PART V | 215 |
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description | 217 |
Theory of Knowledge | 225 |
Epistemological Premisses | 230 |
PART VI | 235 |
Materialism Past and Present | 237 |
Language and Metaphysics | 246 |
The Retreat from Pythagoras | 252 |
PART VII | 257 |
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century | 259 |
Aristotles Logic | 275 |
St Thomas Aquinas | 282 |
Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century | 292 |
The Philosophy of Logical Analysis | 301 |
PART VIII | 309 |
Psychological and Physical Causal Laws | 311 |
Truth and Falsehood | 320 |
Knowledge Behaviouristically Considered | 336 |
PART IX | 343 |
Styles in Ethics | 345 |
The Place of Sex Among Human Values | 351 |
Individual and Social Ethics | 357 |
What I Believe | 367 |
Philosophy and Politics | 454 |
Politically Important Desires | 468 |
Why I am not a Communist | 479 |
PART XII | 483 |
Property | 485 |
Dialectical Materialism | 500 |
The Theory of Surplus Value | 511 |
PART XIII | 519 |
On History | 521 |
PART XIV | 545 |
Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted | 547 |
Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness | 555 |
PART XV | 563 |
The Essence of Religion | 565 |
What is an Agnostic? | 577 |
63 | 585 |
Can Religion Cure our Troubles? | 598 |
PART XVI | 605 |
Physics and Neutral Monism | 607 |
66 | 615 |
Limitations of Scientific Method | 620 |
The New Physics and Relativity | 628 |
Science and Values | 635 |
NonDemonstrative Inference | 647 |
PART XVII | 661 |
The Taming of Power | 663 |
If We are to Survive this Dark Time | 682 |
73 | 688 |
Current Perplexities | 693 |
World Government | 699 |
The Next HalfCentury | 704 |
Life Without Fear | 710 |
Science and Human Life | 716 |
Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev | 726 |
Mans Peril | 729 |
Methods of Settling Disputes in the Nuclear Age | 733 |
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