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My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books. As well as offering some fascinating glimpses into the changing nature of his philosophical beliefs, Russell ...Show more
Mysticism and Logic - And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell III
Category: Philosophy and Religion
On Education by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | 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 all ...Show more
Our Knowledge of the External World by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
"Our Knowledge of the External World" is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge and questions the means in which we have c ...Show more
Philosophical Essays by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1910, Philosophical Essays is one of Bertrand Russell's earliest works and marks an important period in the evolution of thought of one of the world's most influential thinkers. This selection of seven essays displays Russell's incisiveness and brilliance of exposition in the examinat ...Show more
Power by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by e ...Show more
Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell's first major work in print. It was this title which saw him begin his ascent towards eminence. In this groundbreaking and important work, Bertrand Russell argues that mathematics and logic are, in fact, identical and what is common ...Show more
Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
Category: Politics
In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine o ...Show more
Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Routledge Classics
'These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life.' With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting-point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and su ...Show more
The Analysis of Matter by Bertrand Russell; John G. Slater (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
The Analysis of Matter is the product of thirty years of thinking by one of the twentieth century's best-known philosophers. An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of physics, it was written against the background of stunning new developments in physics earlier in the century, above all relativit ...Show more
The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell, III
Category: Health and Wellbeing
This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympathy, although at first sight they might seem inconsistent. On the one hand, many psychologists, especially those of the behaviorist school, tend ...Show more
The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell; Thomas Baldwin (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In The Analysis of Mind, one of his most influential and exciting books, Russell presents an intriguing reconciliation of the materialism of psychology with the anti-materialism of physics. This book established a new conception of the mind and provided one of the most original and interesting externali ...Show more