Bertrand Russell Philosophical Writings

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New editions of Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Writings

Spokesman Books have published a number of Bertrand Russell's philosophical classics.

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Logic and Knowledge is the first of the series to be published. It contains one of Russell's most influential pieces On Denoting.

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Logic and Knowledge</span>

Logic and Knowledge
by Bertrand Russell

Logic and Knowledge has been acclaimed as the most widely-used university text for teaching Russell's philosophy.

Ten essays, including the landmark On Denoting, which extend through fifty years in the life of one of the great philosophers of our time.

" ... for the most part these are writings which it would be impertinent to praise; they are the best work of one of the most influential minds of our time." The Sunday Times

Many of Bertrand Russell's most important essays in logic and the theory of knowledge were not easily available until Professor Marsh collected them together in 1956. It is now the best source of Russell's views in these areas and is firmly established as a philosophical classic in its own right. The collection presents essays which are both historically important and which have profoundly influenced the course of philosophy.

Price: £15.00

380 pages | ISBN: 978 085124 7432

Philosophical Writings

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>The Analysis of Mind</span>

The Analysis of Mind
by Bertrand Russell

"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 behaviourist school, tend to adopt what is essentially a materialistic position, as a matter of method if not of metaphysics. They make psychology increasingly dependent on physiological and external observation, and tend to think of matter as something much more solid and indubitable than mind. Meanwhile the physicists, especially Einstein and other exponents of the theory of relativity, have been making 'matter' less and less material. Their world consists of 'events' from which 'matter' is derived by a logical construction …
I think that what has permanent value in the outlook of the behaviourists is the feeling that physics is the most fundamental science at present in existence. But this position cannot be called materialistic, if, as seems to be the case, physics does not assume the existence of matter." Bertrand Russell

Price: £15.00

310 pages Indexed | Paperback

ISBN: 978 085124 7410

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>Political Ideals</span>

Political Ideals
by Bertrand Russell

In this volume Bertrand Russell outlines the basic tenets of his political code.

Political Ideals is a rigorous and important survey of capitalism, socialism and the organisation of society.

Political Ideals was written during the upheaval of World War One, but still significant to every reader interested in the nature of man's responsibilities and privileges as a social being. It is in many ways, a statement, of Bertrand Russell's beliefs, a declaration of the ideas that have influenced his thinking on the major events of the twentieth century.

In this sense, it is essential reading for every student of this great philosopher. For it defines his principle that the only true aim of politics is to give free play to man's natural creativity, and to deaden, whenever they manifest themselves, the forces of acquisition, power and convention that jeopardise individual responsibility and freedom.

Price: £10.00

160 pages | ISBN: 978 085124 7311

Philosophical Writings

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<span style='font-size: 14px;'>An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth</span>

An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell is concerned with the foundations of knowledge which he approaches first through language. 'Meaning', as applied to words, is shown to be different for words of different kinds: object-words, proper names, logical words and dictionary words. For a sentence we have to consider the way that it expresses something of the nature of an assertion, a denial, an imperative, a desire, or a question. We can understand what it expresses if we know the meaning of its several words and the rules of syntax. From this Russell passes to a discussion of a belief and a sentence in which it is expressed. 'Knowledge' and 'truth' involve the relationship of truth to experience and Russell considers whether we can know that there are unknowable truths.

Price: £18.00

352 pages Indexed | Paperback

ISBN: 978 085124 7373

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