The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

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Psychology Press, 1992 - Philosophy - 736 pages
This 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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.

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