The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 11: Last Philosophical Testament 1947-68

by Bertrand Russell, John Slater (Editor), Peter Köllner (Editor)

Overview

This volume collects together 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 certainly 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040245927
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2024
Series:	The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	936
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction PART I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICLA AND SELF-CRITICAL WRITINGS Headnote to Contributions to The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (1-2) 1 My Mental Development [1944] 2 Russell's Replies [1944-65] 3 My Own Philosophy [1946] 4 The Faith of a Rationalist [1947] 5 Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic? A Plea for Tolerance in the Face of New Dogmas [1949] 6 Why I Took to Philosophy [1955] 7 Some Philosophical Contacts [1955] 8 Beliefs: Discarded and Retained [1955] 9 My Debt to German Learning [1955] PART II. NON-DEMONSTRATIVE INFERENCE 10 Project of Future Work [1943] 11 Postulates of Scientific Method [1943] 12 Non-Deductive Inference [1945?] 13 Postulates of Scientific Inference [1948] 114 Note on Non-Demonstrative Inference and Induction [1959] 15 The Nature and Origin of Scientific Method [1948] PART III. ON SOME OF HIS YOUNGER CONTEMPORARIES 16 Logical Positivism [1945] 17 Logical Positivism [1950] 18 Review of A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic [1947] 19 Light versus Heat [1954] 20 Ludwig Wittgenstein [1951] PART IV. ON SOME OF HIS OLDER CONTEMPORARIES 21 Foreword to Feibleman, Introduction to Peirce's Philosophy [1946] 22 Whitehead and Principia Mathematica [1948] 23 Alfred North Whitehead [1952] 24 A Sage's Table-Talk [1954] 25 Reminiscences of McTaggart [1948] 26 George Santayana [1953] 27 Prof. G. E. Moore/Influence on Lord Russell [1958] 28 The Influence and Thought of G. E. Moore [1959] 29 Preface to Jean Nicod, Le Problème logique de l'induction [1961] PART V. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY 30 Papers on Philosophy [1945?] 31 Hume [1946] 32 Mind and Matter in Modern Science [1945] 33 The Problem of Universais [1946] 34 Rewards of Philosophy [1948] 35 Mind and Matter [1950] 36 The Principle of Individuation [1950] 37 Perception [1957] 38 Notes on Philosophy [1960] PART VI . LOGIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS 39 Preface to William Kingdon Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences [1946] 40 Review of Rupert Crawshay-Williams, The Comforts of Unreason

Editorial Reviews

Only a handful of papers reprinted in this collection were written after 1959<-->Russell retired from academic philosophy for the second time after the publication of "My Philosophical Development", devoting his final years to political protest. 1949 and 1950<-->the years that Russell was appointed to the Order of Merit and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature<-->fall in the period covered by this volume. The papers include autobiographical and self-critical writings as well as papers on non-demonstrative inference, his contemporaries, metaphysics and epistemology, ethics and politics, John Stuart Mill, religion, Albert Einstein, and ordinary language philosophy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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