Introducing Bertrand Russell
A Graphic Guide
Published on 3. September 2015
176 pages
978-1-78578-008-0 (ISBN)
Description
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Russell, the Militant Philosopher
- Russell's Upbringing
- Fear of Madness
- The Geometry Lesson
- A Pure and Perfect World
- The Quest For Reason
- Free at Last.
- The Platonist View of Mathematics
- The Reality of Numbers
- The Formalist View
- Three Kinds of Knowledge
- Against Idealism
- G.E. Moore and Propositions
- The Foundations of Mathematics
- What is Mathematics?
- The Breakthrough
- The Logic of Classes
- The Eureka Moment
- Mathematics as an Escape
- Russell's Devastating Paradox
- A Sense of Disillusionment
- Principia Mathematica
- Types, Functions and Levels
- How Certain is Certainty?
- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
- Conclusions Thus Far
- The Strange World of Logic
- Analytic Questions of Logic
- What is Logic?
- Lady Ottoline Morell
- Empiricism and British Empiricists
- Descartes, Locke and Empirical Truth
- Berkeley, the Idealist Sceptic
- Hume on Impressions
- Mill's Phenomenalism
- Russell's Theory of Knowledge
- A Logical Hypothesis
- On Denoting
- Language and Reality
- Definite Descriptions
- Paradoxes and Puzzles
- Russell's Solution
- The Conclusion About Words and Referring
- Grammatical Existence
- Logical Atomism as a System
- What Can be Referred to?
- Russell and Berkeley
- A Pure Logical Language
- Analytic Philosophy
- Wittgenstein: Benign or Malign Influence?
- The Mystery of Names and Objects
- But is it True?
- Russell's Theories of Meaning
- The Ideational or Mentalist Theory
- The Atomist Theory
- Behavioural Theory
- Frege's Sense and Reference
- Wittgenstein's "Ghost" of Meaning
- The Problems of Philosophy
- Two Kinds of Knowledge
- The Other Problems of Philosophy
- Universals and Particulars
- Are Universals Real?
- What is Truth?
- Seeing as God Might See
- Wittgenstein, the Prodigal Son
- The Ferocious Student
- Parting of the Ways
- Joseph Conrad
- The First World War
- The Conscription Issue
- The Pacifist Russell
- Prison
- Theories of Mind
- The Idealist Theory of Mind
- The Materialist Answer
- Double Aspect Theory
- Russell's Neutral Monism
- Evaluation of Russell's Theory
- A Satisfactory War
- A Bitter Turn
- Dora and the Russian Revolution
- Experience of Bolshevism
- A Visit to China
- Failure and Renewal
- Russell and Science
- The New Physics
- Philosophy and Science After Russell
- The Beacon Hill Experiment
- Sexual Freedom, Almost
- Russell's Politics
- The Anarchist View of Power
- Socialism and the State
- The Threat of Nationalism
- World Government
- Naïve About Politics
- Not Completely a Goose
- The Prophet's Blind Spot
- Scandal in America
- Russell and Religion
- No Proof or Disproof of God
- The Enemy of Christianity
- Russell in the Nuclear Age
- The Peril of Nuclear Holocaust
- The Nobel Prize
- Pugwash and CND
- Committee of 100
- Schoenman and the Prophet
- The Viper
- The Closing Years
- The End
- Assessments of Russell's Work
- Philosophical Descendants
- The Linguistic Analysis School
- The Deeper Aim of Philosophy
- The Failure of Empiricism
- Russell, the Intellectual Icon
- Further Reading
- About the Author and Artist
- Acknowledgements
- Index
