This title presents Bertrand Russell's keen insights into the threat of nuclear conflict. Written at the height of the Cold War, the book offers an understanding of Russell's involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and his passionate...
Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature...
Russel on Religion presents a unique selection of Bertrand Russellâs writings on religion and related topics from the turn of the century to the end of his life which provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the development...
Russell on Ethics presents a coherent and comprehensive collection of Russellâs ethical writings, drawing on a wide range of his publications on ethical concerns, many of which have been difficult to access by students and general reader...
From 1931-1935 Bertrand Russell was one of the regular contributors to the literary pages of the New York American, together with other distinguished authors, such as Aldous Huxley and Vita Sackville-West. Mortals and Others Volume II presents a further...
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 scie...
This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight , is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russellâs political philosophy. Russell argues that after the experience of the Great War the individualistic approach of traditional liberalis...
During the period covered by this volume, Bertrand Russell first retired from and then resumed his philosophical career. In 1927 he published two philosophy books, The Analysis of Matter and An Outline of Philosophy. His next book in academic philosophy,...
From 1931 to 1935 Bertrand Russell was one of the regular contributors to the literary pages of the New York American, together with other distinguished authors such as Aldous Huxley and Vita Sackville-West. Mortals and Others presents a selection of his...
Pure Mathematics is the class of all propositions of the form p implies q, where p and q are propositions containing one or more variables, the same in the two propositions, and neither p nor q contains any constants except logical constants. And logical...
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 collection of Bertrand Russells essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. "Fact and Fiction" provides an insight into...
âPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and acheived fewer results than any other branch of learning .. I believe that the time has now arrived when this unsatisfactory state of affairs can be brought to an end&aci...
First published in 1984 as part of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Theory of Knowledge represents an important addition to our knowledge of Russell's thought. In this work Russell attempts to flesh out the sketch implicit in The Problems...
The 1896-1899 papers, few of which were published in Russell's lifetime, concentrate 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...
One of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russellâs thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning with this question: Is there...