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11. Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language

    A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy

    By Arthur Sullivan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts). Sullivan shows that the notion of...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
12. Russell vs. Meinong

    The Legacy of "On Denoting"

    Edited by Nicholas Griffin, Dale Jacquette

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and...

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
13. Russell

    By Gregory Landini

    Series: The Routledge Philosophers

    Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was renowned as one of the founding figures of "analytic" philosophy, and for his lasting contributions to the study of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics and epistemology. He was also famous for his popular works, where his humanism, ethics and...

    Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
14. The Russellian Origins of Analytical Philosophy

    Bertrand Russell and the Unity of the Proposition

    By Graham Stevens

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    This monograph reappraises the role of Bertrand Russell's philosophical works in establishing the analytical tradition in philosophy. It's main aims are to: * improve our understanding of the history of analytical philosophy * engage in the important disputes surrounding the interpretation of...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
15. The Analytic Turn

    Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology

    Edited by Michael Beaney

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

    This collection, with contributions from leading philosophers, places analytic philosophy in a broader context comparing it with the methodology of its most important rival tradition in twentieth-century philosophy--phenomenology, whose development parallels the development of analytic...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
16. Human Society in Ethics and Politics

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell’s last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse – if one were without...

    Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
17. Fact and Fiction

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and...

    Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
18. Authority and the Individual

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and deep understanding, he explores the formation...

    Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
19. Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell’s staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines...

    Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
20. On Education

    By Bertrand Russell

    Series: Routledge Classics

    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...

    Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge