Rereading Russell was first published in 1989. Though Betrand Russell is best known for his formative role in the creation of symbolic logic (the Principia Mathematica) and analytic philosophy, he was also among the founders of twentieth-century philosophy of science; he used his method of logical analysis to devise a metaphysics and epistemology that could accommodate revolutionary changes in physics and psychology. Yet these areas—especially in his later work—have been neglected and undervalued. The essays in Rereading Russell help to remedy that neglect, by calling attention to the whole sweep of his metaphysics and epistemology, from the turn of the century on, and by reevaluating his doctrines in the light of his entire philosophical corpus. The sixteen contributors treat Russell not merely as a historical figure but also as a source of new ideas. Ranging over his work from the 1901 Principles of Mathematics to the 1959 summation, My Philosophical Development, they emphasize the unity and integrity of his metaphysical and epistemological writings. Their essays devote special attention to the later philosophy -- the doctrines developed in (and after) his 1927 book, The Analysis of Matter. The subjects covered fall into five groups: philosophy of mathematics and ontology; philosophy of language; epistemology; nondemonstrative inference; and the philosophy of science and metaphysics.
Author(s): C. Wade Savage, C. Anthony Anderson
Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 324
Contents......Page 5
Note on References......Page 7
List of Abbreviations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Russell's Reasons for Ramification ......Page 34
Russell's Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences......Page 51
Russell's Paradox, Russellian Relations, and the Problems of Predication and Impredicativity......Page 73
The Significance of "On Denoting"......Page 98
Russelling Causal Theories of Reference......Page 118
Russell on Indexicals and Scientific Knowledge......Page 129
Sense-Data in Russell's Theories of Knowledge......Page 148
Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge Manuscript......Page 179
The Concept of Structure in The Analysis of Matter......Page 193
On Induction and Russell's Postulates......Page 210
Concepts of Projectability and the Problems of Induction......Page 230
Giving up Judgment Empiricism: The Bayesian Epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Grover Maxwell......Page 244
Russell on Order in Time......Page 259
Cause in the Later Russell......Page 274
Portrait of a Philosopher of Science......Page 291
References......Page 304
Contributors......Page 310
Author Index......Page 315
Subject Index......Page 317
