Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential and controversial work, Russell calls for an education that would liberate the child from unthinking obedience to parental and religious authority. He argues that if the basis of [...]
First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell's first major work in print. It was this title which saw him begin his ascent towards eminence. In this groundbreaking and important work, Bertrand Russell argues that mathematics and logic are, in fact, identical and what is co[...]
Bertrand Russell is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into Russell's thinking on issues that preoccupied him throughout his life: athei[...]
Work focuses on concepts of number, order, relations, limits and continuity, propositional functions, descriptions and classes, more.
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Accessible study examines distinction between appearance and reality, existence and nature of matter, idealism, inductive logic, intuitive knowledge, much more. "concise...perfectly clear to the general reader."--Booklist.
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In this, one of his most influential and interesting books, Russell presents an intriguing reconciliation of the materialism of psychology with the antimaterialism of physics. This volume established a new conception of the mind and provided one of the most original and exciting externalist accounts[...]
Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy. Through his books, journalism, correspondence and political activity he exerted a profound influence on modern thought. This companion centers on Russell?s contributions to modern philosophy and, therefore, concentrates on [...]
Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy[...]
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom[...]
Originally published in 1954 and long out of print, this is the first paperback edition.
A masterpiece of philosophical autobiography.
A profound and difficult discussion of the nature of knowledge by the most clear headed of modern philosophers.[...]
This book sets out in a lucid and non-technical way the main ideas of Principia Mathematica. It is as inspiring and useful to the beginner now as it was when it was first published.[...]
This study remains one of the most important studies of Liebniz ever published. It established an approach to studying philosophers of the past that emphasises the philosophical rather than the historical.[...]