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• The philosophy of logical atomism (1918).
• Logical atomism (1924).

• part I. No-classes theories and substitutional theories, 1905-06
• part II. Theories of truth, 1906-08
• part III. From subsitutional theories to the ramified theory of types, 1906-08
• part IV. Reviews on Foundations of mathematics
• part V. Other philosophical reviews and writings
• Appendices.

• Uncertain prospects for peace
• Diarist for "The new statesman and nation"
• Ideology and politics
• On reason, cruelty and conscience
• Science and society
• Educational theory and practice
• Parenting, marriage and sex
• Pacifism versus collective security
• Appendixes: Interviews. Multiple-signatory texts. Miscellaneous shorter writings. Missing and unprinted papers.

In "Collected Papers 21" Bertrand Russell grapples with the dilemma that confronted all opponents of militarism and war in the 1930s - namely, what was the most politically and morally appropriate response to international aggression. "How to Keep the Peace" contains some of Russell's best-known essays, such as the famous "Auto-obituary" and his treatment of "The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed". Like the sixteen previous volumes in Routledge's critical edition of Russell's shorter writings, however, "Collected Papers 21" also includes a number of unpublished manuscripts from the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University. Moreover, it recovers for Russell scholars and general readers alike a rich vein of material that has previously appeared in print only in obscure or long-defunct newspaper and periodical publications.
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"Detente or Destruction, 1955-57" continues publication of Routledge's multi-volume critical edition of Bertrand Russell's shorter writings. Between September 1955 and November 1957 Russell published some 61 articles, reviews, statements, contributions to books and letters to editors, over 50 of which are contained in this volume. The texts, several of them hitherto unpublished, reveal the deepening of Russell's commitment to the anti-nuclear struggle, upon which he embarked in the previous volume of "Collected Papers" ("Man's Peril, 1954-55"). Continuing with the theme of nuclear peril, this volume contains discussion of nuclear weapons, world peace, prospects for disarmament and British-Soviet friendship against the backdrop of the Cold War. One of the key papers in this volume is Russell's message to the inaugural conference of the Pugwash movement, which Russell was instrumental in launching and which became an influential, independent forum of East-West scientific cooperation and counsel on issues as an internationally agreed nuclear test-ban. In addition to the issues of war and peace, Russell, now in his eighties, continued to take an interest in a wide variety of themes. Russell not only addresses older controversies over nationalism and empire, religious belief and American civil liberties, he also confronts head-on the new and pressing matters of armed intervention in Hungary and Suez, and of the manufacture and testing of the British hydrogen bomb. This volume includes 7 interviews ranging from East-West Relations after the Geneva conference to a Meeting with Russell.
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This volume of collected papers signals the reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner. The title of the volume is taken from one of his most famous and eloquent short essays and probably the best known of his many broadcasts for the BBC. "Man's Peril, 1954-55" not only captures the essence of Russell's thinking about nuclear weapons and the Cold War in the mid-1950s, its extraordinary impact served to jolt him into political protest once again. The activism of which we glimpse the initial stirrings in this volume continued in various guises, more or less without interruption, until his death. In the writings assembled in this volume, however, he is looking towards the non-aligned states and world scientific opinion as possible brokers of detente. (The volume includes Russell's famous public statement, the declaration of scientists known as "The Russell-Einstein Manifesto".) Although Russell was becoming increasingly immersed in work for peace, this was not to the exclusion of all other interests. For example, here we find also him reminiscing about his peace campaigning during the World War I, defending "history as an art" and attacking the obscurantism of obscenity legislation and the opponents of birth control.
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This volume collects together the writings of Bertrand Russell during the period from 1919 to 1922. Having emerged from the Great War determined to prevent another armed conflict, Russell became a champion of international socialism as the antidote to the destructive forces of nationalism and capitalism. His quest for international reconstruction led to two enduring experiences, his trip first to Bolshevik Russia in 1920 and then to divided China in 1920-21. These letters describe those experiences which confirmed his emergence as a popular commentator on contemporary political issues.
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This volume collects together Betrand Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of "My Philosophical Development" in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with political writings. In this volume there are a handful of papers dated later than 1959, and all of these were written by Russell himself. This volume contains Russell's writings on diverse philosophical interests, including autobiographical and self-critical papers, critiques of other philosophers and his controversial opinions on Christianity.
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• Part I. Autobiographical Writings
• 1. Things That Have Moulded Me (1927)
• 2. How I Came By My Creed (1929)
• 3. My Religious Reminiscences (1938) Part II. History and Philosophy of Science
• 4. Events, Matter and Mind (1927)
• 5. Had Newton Never Lived (1927)
• 6. Einstein (1928)
• 7. The Future of Science (1928) Headnote to Four Reviews of Eddington (8-11)
• 8. Physics and Theology (1929)
• 9. Review of Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
• 10. Review of Sir Arthur Eddington, The Expanding Universe (1933)
• 11. Scientific Certainty and Uncertainty (1935)
• 12. Review of James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe (1930)
• 13. Determinism and Physics (1936)
• 14. Review of Hyman Levy, A Philosophy for a Modern Man (1938) a) Philosophy and Common Sense (1938) b)Philosophy and Common Sense (1938) Part III. Logic and Probability Theory
• 15. Mr F.P. Ramsey on Logical Paradoxes (1928)
• 16. A Tribute to Morris Raphael Cohen (1927)
• 17. Probability and Fact (1930) Headnote to Two Reviews of Ramsey (18-19)
• 18. Review of Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics (1931)
• 19. Review of Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics (1932)
• 20. Congress of Scientific Philosophy (1936)
• 21. On Order in Time (1936)
• 22. On the Importance of Logical Form (1938)
• 23. Dewey's New Logic (1939) Part IV. Educational Theory
• 24. How Behaviourists Teach Behaviour (1928)
• 25. The Application of Science to Education (1928) Part V. Writings Critical of Religion
• 26. Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
• 27. Bertrand Russell's Confession of Faith (1927)
• 28. What is the Soul? (1929)
• 29. Why Mr Wood is Not a Freethinker (1929)
• 30. Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1929)
• 31. Is Religion Desirable? (1929)
• 32. Morality and Religion (1929)
• 33. Science and Religion (1935?)
• 34. Need Morals Have a Religious Basis? (1937?)
• 35. The Existence and Nature of God (1939) Part VI. Epistemology and Metaphysics
• 36. Physics and Metaphysics (1928)
• 37. On the Value of Scepticism (1928)
• 38. Bertrand Russell Replies (1929)
• 39. Analysis of Mind (1932)
• 40. The Decrease of Knowledge (1935)
• 41. Three Papers on "Useless" Knowledge (1935-1935) a) The Social Importance of Culture b) On Curious Learning c) "Useless" Knowledge (1935)
• 42. The Limits of Empiricism (1936)
• 43. Philosophy and Grammar (1936)
• 44. Philosophy's Ulterior Motives (1937)
• 45. On Verification (1938)
• 46. The Relevance of Psychology to Logic (1938)
• 47. Non-Materialistic Naturalism (1942) Part VII. Ethics and Politics
• 48. How will Science Change Morals? (1928)
• 49. Democracy and Emotion (1929)
• 50. Is There a New Morality? (1929)
• 51. How Science Has Changed Society (1932) Headnote to Four Papers on Ethics and Law for the Hearst Newspapers (52-55)
• 52. On Utilitarianism (1933)
• 53. Individualist Ethics (1933)
• 54. Respect for the Law (1933)
• 55. Competitive Ethics (1934)
• 56. The Philosophy of Communism (1934)
• 57. The Ancestry of Fascism (1935)
• 58. Freedom and Government (1940)
• 59. On Keeping a Wide Ho.
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Volume 10 brings together Russell's writings on ethics, politics, religion and academic philosophy. During the period covered by this volume, Bertrand Russell first retired from and then resumed his philosophical career. In 1927 he published two philosophy books, The Analysis of Matter and An Outline of Philosophy . His next book in academic philosophy, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth , was not published until 1940. This is an invaluable guide to the thought and development of one of the most famous philosophers of this century.
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This volume begins with Russell becoming the Acting Chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship (NCF) very soon after the establishment of the Lloyd George Coalition. The Coalition signalled the official British resolve to defeat Germany decisively. This uncompromising determination was matched by the German decision in January 1917 to initiate unrestricted submarine warfare. By contrast with Volume 13, this volume contains many short papers. These documents reflect Russell's immediate responses to developments in the conflict as seen from his position as the important political commentator for the official weekly publication of the NCF, "The Tribunal". Volume 14 shows how Russell continued to develop those patterns of political argument, rhetoric and activism characteristic of him thoughout his life.
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• Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements Chronology Part I. Early Foundational Work
• 1. Classes
• 2. Relations
• 3. Functions Part II. The Zig-Zag Theory
• 4. Outlines of Symbolic Logic
• 5. On Functions, Classes and Relations
• 6. On Functions
• 7. Fundamental Notions
• 8. On the Functionality of Denoting Complexes
• 9. On the Nature of Functions
• 10. On Classes and Relations Part III. The Theory of Denoting
• 11. On the Meaning and Denotation of Phrases
• 12. Dependent Variables and Denotation
• 13. Points about Denoting
• 14. On Meaning and Denotation
• 15. On Fundamentals
• 16. On Denoting Part IV. Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
• 17. Meinong's Theory of Complexes and Assumptions
• 18. The Axiom of Infinity
• 19. Non-Euclidean Geometry
• 20. The Existential Import of Propositions
• 21. The Nature of Truth
• 22. Necessity and Possibility
• 23. On the Relation of Mathematics to Symbolic Logic Part V. Philosophical Reviews
• 24. Recent Work on the Philosophy of Leibniz
• 25. Review of Couturat
• 26. Review of Geissler
• 27. Principia Ethica
• 28. The Meaning of Good
• 29. Review of Delaporte
• 30. Review of Hinton
• 31. Review of Petronievics
• 32. Science and Hypothesis
• 33. Review of Poincare
• 34. Review of Meinong and Others Appendices I Frege on the Contradiction II Comments on Definitions of Philosophical Terms III Sur la relation des mathematiques a la logistique Missing and Unprinted Papers Contents Textual Notes Bibliographical Index General Index.
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This volume covers the period from the beginning of Whitehead and Russell's work on Volume 2 of the Principles of Mathematics to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905. The volume contains a large number of unpublished manuscripts which give a vivd picture of Russell wrestling with the logical paradoxes, often unsuccessfully, as he tries out one foundational scheme after another. Previously unpublished work in the theory of denoting is included, which predates the famous article of 1905. This volume also gathers together several manuscripts on the so-called zig-zag' theory with which Russell attempted to provide a type-free foundation for mathematics. A number of reviews and survey articles, together with two talks on modality and truth, are also published for the first time.
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This volume shows Russell in transition from a neo-Kantian and neo-Hegelian philosopher to an analytic philosopher of the first rank. During this period, his research centred on writing "The Principles of Mathematics" where he drew together previously unpublished drafts. These shed light on Russell's paradox. This material aims to alter previous accounts of how he discovered his paradox and the related paradox of the largest cardinal. The volume also includes a previously unpublished draft of an early attempt to solve his paradox, as well as the earliest known version of his generalized relation arithmetic. It contains three articles which have not previously been published in English.
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The years covered by this volume of the "Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell" were among the most productive of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he brought "Principia Mathematica" to its finished form and wrote "The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge" and "Knowledge of the External World". In October 1910 he began teaching at Cambridge, having accepted an appointment as lecturer in logic and the principles of mathematics at Trinity College for a term of five years. A year later Ludwig Wittgenstein began to attend his lectures. Within a few months he was influencing Russell's philosophical thinking as much as, or more than, Russell was influencing his.
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• Part 1 The dialectic of the sciences (1896-99): note on the logic of the sciences (c.1896)-- various notes on mathematical philosophy (1896-98)-- four notes on dynamics (c.1896)-- review of Hannequin, "Essai critique sur l'hypothese des atomes dans la science contemporaine" (1896)-- on some difficulties of continuous quantity (1896)-- review of Couturat, "De l'infini mathematique" (1897)-- on the relations of number and quantity (1897)-- the philosophy of matter (1897)-- on the conception of matter in mixed mathematics (1897)-- motion in a plenum (1897)-- why do we regard time, but not space, as necessarily a plenum? (1897), review of love, theoretical mechanics (1898)-- on causality as used in dynamics (1898)-- review of Goblot, "Essai sur la classification des sciences" (1898)-- on quantity and allied conceptions (1898)-- the classification of relations (1899)-- review of Meinong, "Ueber die bedeutung des Weber'schen Gesetzes" (1899).
• Part 2 An analysis of mathematical reasoning (1898): an analysis of mathematical reasoning being an inquiry into the subject-matter, the fundamental conceptions, and the necessary postulates of mathematics (1898)-- a manuscript material-- typescript material-- fragments of early drafts.
• Part 3 Philosophy of mathematics (1898-99): on the principles of arithmetic (1898)-- the fundamental ideas and axioms of mathematics (1899)-- synoptic table of contents-- notes and drafts-- fragments of
• Part 1.
• Part 4 Geometry (1898-99): on the constituents of space and their mutual relations (1898)-- are Euclid's axioms empirical? (1898)-- note on order (1898)-- notes on geometry (1899)-- the axioms of geometry (1899). Appendices: French texts-- miscellaneous notes-- extracts from Russell's mathematical notebook of 1896-- lost papers-- versos from paper 3-- reading lists for the philosophy of dynamics (c.1897).
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This volume of the Collected Papers includes Russell's earliest philosophical writings, collected here for the first time. The 1896-1898 papers, few of which were published in Russell's lifetime, concentrate primarily on physics, arithmetic, and the concept of quantity. Several views that later became well-known in his "The Principles of Mathematics" actually originate in this earlier work and, though incomplete, "An Analysis of Mathematical Reasoning" forms the centrepiece of the volume. Writings from early in 1889, where he advances beyond his initial insights and develops a range of new ideas in the philosophy of logic, form the remainder of the volume.
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• Part 1 4 August-24 December
• 1914: the rights of the war-- war - the cause and the cure-- our Foreign Office-- armaments and national security-- fear as the ultimate cause of war-- possible guarantees of peace.
• Part 2
• 1915: the ethics of war-- the policy of the allies-- the reconciliation question-- to avoid future wars-- the future of Anglo-German rivalry-- the philosophy of pacifism-- war and non-resistance-- on justice in war-time - an appeal to the intellectuals of Europe.
• Part 3 1 January-7 December
• 1916: principles of social reconstruction-- the danger to civilization-- a clash of consciences-- practical war economy-- liberty of conscience-- British politics-- the conscientious objector-- Bertrand Russell and the War Office.
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This volume comprises Russell's shorter writings against British participation in World War 1 for the period from the outbreak of the conflict in August 1914 to the formation of the Lloyd George coalition government in December 1916. This collection of theoretical and practical pacifist writings records Russell's critique of the British Liberal Party and documents the stages in his move towards the Independent Labour Party. His prominent role in the Union of Democratic control is also explored. Russell's hostility to conscription led him to active involvement with the No-conscription Fellowship, although this volume shows that by the autumn of 1916 he had concluded that conscientious objectors were not going to stop the war. He was, however, committed to tireless efforts to convince his countrymen to agitate for an immediate and fair peace. Documents bearing on the continuing government attempts to harrass Russell are also recorded.
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This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on "Principia Mathematica.".
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