The Bloomsbury companion to Bertrand Russell /
"A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers. The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell explores this influence in detail and responds to renewed interest in Russell'...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Bertrand Russell-A Timeline; Abbreviations for Works Written by Russell; Introduction; Notes; Part 1 Russell in Context; Chapter 1 Russell and Idealism; 1 Idealism: Berkeley, Kant, and Hegel; 2 Three British idealists: McTaggart, Bradley, and Ward; 3 Russell as idealist; 4 Russell's Moorean philosophy21; 5 Russell's post-Peano philosophy and idealism; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Russell and the Pragmatists; 1 The straightforward story: Russell the anti-pragmatist
- 2 A spanner in the works of the straightforward story3 Russell at Harvard: 1914; 4 Russell's pragmatism: Perception, belief, and behavior; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Russell's Objections to Frege and Meinong in Context; 1 The origins of Russell's Paradox and his disagreements with Frege; 2 What Russell learned from Frege; 3 Where Russell agreed with Meinong; 4 The origins of "The present King of France" objection; Notes; References; Works by Russell; Chapter 4 Russell's Initial Encounter with Wittgenstein 1911-14; 1 Introduction; 2 Wittgenstein and Russell 1911-12: The matter of matter
- 3 1913: Theory of knowledge4 Russell's reaction to Wittgenstein's criticisms; Notes; References; Chapter 5 From Russell to the Vienna Circle and Back; 1 Introduction; 2 Carnap, the Principia, and logicism; 3 OKEW, Aufbau: Logical construction and type theory; 4 Russell and the circle; Notes; References; Part 2 Philosophical Issues; Chapter 6 Russell's Logicism; 1 Introduction; 2 The regressive method and its prior successes; 3 The paradoxes and the development of Russell's logic; 4 Logicism in Principia Mathematica; 5 Gödel's results and the scope of Logicism
- 6 The controversial "axioms" and if-then-ismNotes; References; Chapter 7 Russell on Denoting and Language; Introduction; 1 Russellian propositions; 2 Russell's theory of descriptions; 3 Logical form, metaphysics, and semantics; 4 Going forward: Two problems with the theory of descriptions; 5 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Russell's Logic as the Essence of Philosophy; 1 Introduction; 2 Logic as the essence of philosophy: Problems; 3 Logic as the essence of philosophy: Our Knowledge; 4 Reconstruction in philosophy; Notes; References; Chapter 9 Sense-Data, Sensibilia, and Percepts
- 1 Introduction2 Sense-data introduced; 3 Logical constructions and sensibilia; 4 Sense-data rejected; 5 Russell's epistemology after the rejection of sense-data; Notes; References; Chapter 10 Russell on Introspection and Self-Knowledge; 1 Introduction; 2 Knowing things and knowing truths; 3 Knowing the mind by acquaintance; 4 Inner perception and introspective judgments; 5 Is there acquaintance with the self?; 6 Constructing the self; 7 Toward neutral monism; Notes; References; Chapter 11 Russell's Bridge; 1 Building Russell's Bridge