The basic writings of Bertrand Russell /

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Few philosophers have had a more profound influence on the course of modern philosophy than Bertrand Russell. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell is a comprehensive anthology of Russell's most definitive essays written between 1903 and 1959. First published in 1961, this remarkable collectio...

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Main Author: Russell, Bertrand
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge classics
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 > Philosophy, British > Materialism > Metaphysics > Philosophy--Language
Table of Contents:
  • Autobiographical asides
  • My religious reminiscences
  • My mental development
  • Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome
  • Why I took to philosophy
  • The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer)
  • How I write
  • A free man's worship
  • An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity
  • The metaphysician's nightmare
  • The philosopher of language
  • Language
  • Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech
  • The uses of language
  • The cult of "common usage"
  • The logician and philosopher of mathematics
  • Symbolic logic
  • On induction
  • Preface to Principia mathematica
  • Introduction to Principia mathematica
  • Summary of part III, Principia mathematica
  • Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica
  • Summary of part V, Principia mathematica
  • Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica
  • Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica
  • Mathematics and logic
  • The validity of inference
  • Dewey's new logic
  • John Dewey
  • The epistemologist
  • Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge
  • By description
  • Theory of knowledge
  • Epistemological premisses
  • The metaphysician
  • Materialism, past and present
  • Language and metaphysics
  • The retreat from Pythagoras
  • Historian of philosophy
  • Philosophy in the twentieth century
  • Aristotle's logic
  • St Thomas Aquinas
  • Currents of thought in the nineteenth century
  • The philosophy of logical analysis
  • The psychologist
  • Psychological and physical causal laws
  • Truth and falsehood
  • Knowledge behaviouristically considered
  • The moral philosopher
  • Styles in ethics
  • The place of sex among human values
  • Individual and social ethics
  • "What I believe"
  • The expanding mental universe
  • The philosopher of education
  • Education
  • The aims of education
  • Emotion and discipline
  • The functions of a teacher
  • The philosopher of politics
  • The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship
  • Philosophy and politics
  • Politically important desires
  • Why I am not a communist
  • The philosopher in the field of economics
  • Property
  • Dialectical materialism
  • The theory of surplus value
  • The philosopher of history
  • On history
  • The materialistic theory of history
  • History as an art
  • The philosopher of culture: East and West
  • Chinese and Western civilization contrasted
  • Eastern and Western ideals of happiness
  • The philosopher of religion
  • The essence of religion
  • What is an agnostic?
  • Why I am not a Christian
  • Can religion cure our troubles?
  • The philosopher and expositor of science
  • Physics and neutral monism
  • Science and education
  • Limitations of scientific method
  • The new physics and relativity
  • Science and values
  • Non-demonstrative inference
  • The analyst of international affairs
  • The taming of power
  • If we are to survive this dark time
  • What would help mankind most?
  • Current perplexities
  • World government
  • The next half-century
  • Life without fear
  • Science and human life
  • Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev
  • Man's peril
  • Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear age.

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