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  1. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 14

    Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18

    By Bertrand Russell

    Edited by Louis Greenspan, Beryl Haslam, Albert C. Lewis, Mark Lippincott, Richard A. Rempel

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to...

    Published July 26th 1995 by Routledge

  2. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 4

    Foundations of Logic, 1903-05

    Edited by Alasdair Urquhart, Albert C. Lewis

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    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. Contains many previously unpublished manuscripts....

    Published June 1st 1994 by Routledge

  3. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 3

    Toward the 'Principles of Mathematics' 1900-02

    Edited by Gregory H. Moore

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    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 During this period his research centred on writing The Principles of Mathematics where he drew together previously unpublished drafts.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...

    Published March 2nd 1994 by Routledge

  4. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6

    Logical and Philosophical Papers 1909-13

    Edited by John Slater, Bernd Frohmann

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy,...

    Published December 16th 1992 by Routledge

  5. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 2

    The Philosophical Papers 1896-99

    Edited by Nicholas Griffin, Albert C. Lewis

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    The 1896-1899 papers, few of which were published in Russell's lifetime, concentrates 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 his earlier work, and though incomplete,An...

    Published June 27th 1990 by Routledge

  6. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 9

    Essays on Language, Mind and Matter, 1919-26

    Edited by Bernd Frohmann, John Slater

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus...

    Published August 24th 1988 by Routledge

  7. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 13

    Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16

    Edited by Bernd Frohmann, Mark Lippincott, Richard A. Rempel

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    Bertrand Russell's shorter writings against British participation in the First World War from its outbreak until the formation of Lloyd George's coalition. It includes the fullest documentation yet of the continuing government attempts to stifle Russell, then regarded as Britain's most dangerous...

    Published August 24th 1988 by Routledge

  8. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Critical Assessments

    Edited by Stuart Shanker

    Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

    Philosophical interest in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein is developing at a phenomenal rate. Every year sees a growing number of works devoted to matters pertaining to exegesis or application of Wittgenstein's ideas. Wittgenstein's influence is thus radiating throughout every branch and...

    Published March 21st 1987 by Routledge

  9. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 8

    The Philosophy of Logical Atomism and Other Essays 1914-19

    Edited by John Slater

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on Principia Mathematica....

    Published June 25th 1986 by Routledge

  10. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 12

    Contemplation and Action, 1902-14

    By Bertrand Russell

    Edited by Andrew Brink, Margaret Moran, Richard A. Rempel

    Series: The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

    Published August 21st 1985 by Routledge