The basic writings of Bertrand Russell
By: Bertrand Russell.
Series: Routledge classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, [England]; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415472388
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: Originally publishedas: Basic writings, 1903-1959, London : George Allen & Unwin, 1961.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Autobiographical asides; title: My religious reminiscences; title: My mental development; title: Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome; title: Why I took to philosophy; title: The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer); title: How I write; title: A free man's worship; title: An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity; title: The metaphysician's nightmare; title: The philosopher of language; title: Language; title: Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech; title: The uses of language; title: The cult of "common usage"; title: The logician and philosopher of mathematics; title: Symbolic logic; title: On induction; title: Preface to Principia mathematica; title: Introduction to Principia mathematica; title: Summary of part III, Principia mathematica; title: Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica; title: Summary of part V, Principia mathematica; title: Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica; title: Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica; title: Mathematics and logic; title: The validity of inference; title: Dewey's new logic; title: John Dewey; title: The epistemologist; title: Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge; title: By description; title: Theory of knowledge; title: Epistemological premisses; title: The metaphysician; title: Materialism, past and present; title: Language and metaphysics; title: The retreat from Pythagoras; title: Historian of philosophy; title: Philosophy in the twentieth century; title: Aristotle's logic; title: St Thomas Aquinas; title: Currents of thought in the nineteenth century; title: The philosophy of logical analysis; title: The psychologist; title: Psychological and physical causal laws; title: Truth and falsehood; title: Knowledge behaviouristically considered; title: The moral philosopher; title: Styles in ethics; title: The place of sex among human values; title: Individual and social ethics; title: "What I believe"; title: The expanding mental universe; title: The philosopher of education; title: Education; title: The aims of education; title: Emotion and discipline; title: The functions of a teacher; title: The philosopher of politics; title: The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship; title: Philosophy and politics; title: Politically important desires; title: Why I am not a communist; title: The philosopher in the field of economics; title: Property; title: Dialectical materialism; title: The theory of surplus value; title: The philosopher of history; title: On history; title: The materialistic theory of history; title: History as an art; title: The philosopher of culture: East and West; title: Chinese and Western civilization contrasted; title: Eastern and Western ideals of happiness; title: The philosopher of religion; title: The essence of religion; title: What is an agnostic?; title: Why I am not a Christian; title: Can religion cure our troubles?; title: The philosopher and expositor of science; title: Physics and neutral monism; title: Science and education; title: Limitations of scientific method; title: The new physics and relativity; title: Science and values; title: Non-demonstrative inference; title: The analyst of international affairs; title: The taming of power; title: If we are to survive this dark time; title: What would help mankind most?; title: Current perplexities; title: World government; title: The next half-century; title: Life without fear; title: Science and human life; title: Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev; title: Man's peril; title: Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear age.