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Patricia Russell and Her Influence on Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell’s relationship with his third wife, Patricia Russell (nee Spence), remains largely unexplored, primarily due to the long-standing...
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Bertrand and Dora Russell on Sex, Marriage and the Rule of Fathers
Reviewers of Bertrand Russell’s Marriage and Morals (MM) came to no consensus on the purpose of the work. Some saw it as advocating love in marriage,...
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Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in his Circle
This book examines Bertrand Russell’s complicated relationships to the women around him, and to feminism more generally. The essays in this volume...
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“I like her very much—she has very good brains.”: Dorothy Wrinch’s Influence on Bertrand Russell
In this chapter I critically examine the hitherto neglected influence that Dorothy Wrinch had on her teacher, friend, and informal thesis adviser,...
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Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald: Two Women Who Challenged Bertrand Russell on Ordinary Language
This chapter considers some of the philosophical writings of Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) and Margaret MacDonald (1903–1956), particularly in relation...
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Russell and American Realism
American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from...
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Erste Reaktionen: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Frank Ramsey
Die Reaktionen Gottlob Freges, Bertrand Russells und Frank Ramseys auf W.s frühe Philosophie unterscheiden sich deutlich voneinander: Nicht nur auf...
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Bertrand Russell versus John Dewey
There was a famous debate between Bertrand Russell and John Dewey in the early twentieth century. It was ostensibly about how children should best be...
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Georg Cantor versus Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell's (1872{1970) famous Principia Mathematica written jointly with Alfred Lord Whitehead was published in 1910, the year before the...
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Grandmothers and Founding Mothers of Analytic Philosophy: Constance Jones, Bertrand Russell, and Susan Stebbing on Complete and Incomplete Symbols
Russell’s use of incomplete symbols constituted progress in philosophy. They allowed Russell to make true negative existential claims, like ‘the...
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Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell and Feminism
The question of Russell’s engagement with feminist ideas of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is helpfully illuminated, I argue, by...
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‘Ants, bees, and Bergson’: Bertrand Russell’s Polemic
This chapter analyses Russell’s objections to Bergson, influenced by James’s depiction of Bergson as an ‘anti-intellectualist’. Russell argues that...
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Stebbing and Russell on Bergson: Early Analytics on Continental Thought
The purpose of this chapter is to argue that the work of Susan Stebbing, an analytic philosopher and proponent of both common sense philosophy and...
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Consciousness Versus Language: Wittgenstein and Russell
This chapter criticizes the empirical and “scientific” approach to consciousness as presented in analytic and linguistic philosophers. The chapter...
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Russell and Carnap or Bourbaki? Two Ways Towards Structures
Recent years have featured the existence of a variety of structuralisms, with an important partition between methodological versus philosophical...
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Reichenbach, Russell and scientific realism
This paper considers how to best relate the competing accounts of scientific knowledge that Russell and Reichenbach proposed in the 1930s and 1940s....
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A Historical Perspective in Support of Direct Realism
In this paper I argue that Direct realism is less prone to internal incoherence as a theory of knowledge than alternative theories. The theory of...
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Kant and Russell on Leibniz’ Existential Assertions
Leibniz believed in a God that has the power to create beings and whose existence could be a priori demonstrated. Kant (KrV, A 592-602/B 620-630)...
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Logischer Atomismus und Philosophie der ›normalen Sprache‹: Bertrand Russell und Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bertrand Russell hat im Laufe seines Lebens als Wissenschaftler unterschiedliche Rollen eingenommen: Mathematiker und Logiker, Pädagoge,...