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Edited by Nicholas Griffin and Albert C. Lewis
Textual Apparatus Prepared by William G. Stratton
London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Pages: xxxix, 647.
ISBN: 978-0-415-09863-2

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

 

PART I. THE DIALECTIC OF THE SCIENCES (1896–99)

1. Note on the Logic of the Sciences [c.1896]
2. Various Notes on Mathematical Philosophy [1896–98]
3. Four Notes on Dynamics [c.1896]
4. Review of Hannequin, Essai critique sur l’hypothèse des atomes dans la science contemporaine [1896]
5.. On Some Difficulties of Continuous Quantity [1896]
6.. Review of Couturat, De l’Infini mathématique [1897]
7. On the Relations of Number and Quantity [1897]
8. The Philosophy of Matter [1897]
9. On the Conception of Matter in Mixed Mathematics [1897]
10. Motion in a Plenum [1897]
11. Why Do We Regard Time, But Not Space, as Necessarily a Plenum? [1897]
12. Review of Love, Theoretical Mechanics [1898]
13. On Causality as Used in Dynamics [1898]
14. Review of Goblot, Essai sur la classification des sciences [1898]
15. On Quantity and Allied Conceptions [1898]
16. The Classification of Relations [1899]
17. Review of Meinong, Ueber die Bedeutung des Weber’schen Gesetzes [1899]

PART II. AN ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING (1898)

18. An Analysis of Mathematical Reasoning Being an Inquiry into the Subject-Matter, the Fundamental Conceptions, and the Necessary Postulates of Mathematics [1898]
a. Manuscript Material
b. Typescript Material
c. Fragments of Early Drafts

PART III. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (1898–99)

19. On the Principles of Arithmetic [1898]
20. The Fundamental Ideas and Axioms of Mathematics [1899]
a. Synoptic Table of Contents
b. Notes and Drafts
c. Fragments of Part I

PART IV. GEOMETRY (1898–99)

21. On the Constituents of Space and Their Mutual Relations [1898]
22. Are Euclid’s Axioms Empirical? [1898]
23. Note on Order [1898]
24. Notes on Geometry [1899]
25. The Axioms of Geometry [1899]

APPENDICES

I French Texts
II Miscellaneous Notes
III Extracts from Russell’s Mathematical Notebook of 1896
IV Lost Papers
V Versos from Paper 3
VI Reading Lists for the Philosophy of Dynamics [c.1897]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
Symbols Index
General Index

[1993]

Edited by Gregory H. Moore
London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Pages: lviii, 895.
ISBN: 978-0-415-09405-4

Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. DRAFTS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS

General Headnote
1. The Principles of Mathematics, Draft of 1899–1900
Part I Number
Part II Whole and Part
Part III Quantity
Part IV Order
Part V Continuity and Infinity
Part VI Space and Time
Part VII Matter and Motion
2. Part I of the Principles, Draft of 1901
3. Plan for Book I: The Variable [1902]

PART II. ABSOLUTE SPACE AND TIME

General Headnote
4. Is Position in Time Absolute or Relative? [1900]
5. The Notion of Order and Absolute Position in Space and Time [1901]
6. Is Position in Time and Space Absolute or Relative? [1901]

PART III. AFTER PEANO: FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS

General Headnote
7. On the Notion of Order [1901]
8. The Logic of Relations with Some Applications to the Theory of Series [1901]
9. Recent Italian Work on the Foundations of Mathematics [1901]
10. Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics [1901]
11. Lecture II. Logic of Propositions [1901]
12. General Theory of Well-Ordered Series [1902]
13. On Finite and Infinite Cardinal Numbers [1902]
14. Continuous Series [1902]
15. On Likeness [1902]

PART IV. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (1898–99)

16. Note [1902]
17. The Teaching of Euclid [1902]
18. Geometry, Non-Euclidean [1902]

PART III. GENERAL PHILOSOPHY

General Headnote
19. Review of Schultz, Psychologie der Axiome [1900]
20. Leibniz’s Doctrine of Substance as Deduced from His Logic [1900]
21. Review of Boutroux, L’Imagination et les mathématiques selon Descartes [1901]
22. Review of Hastie, Kant’s Cosmogony [1901]
23. Do Psychical States Have Position in Space? [1902]

APPENDICES

I Identity and Diversity
.1 Do Differences Differ?
.2 On Identity
.3 Logic Founded on Diversity
.4 On a Logic Founded on Diversity
.5 Logic Founded on Diversity
II An Assault on Russell’s Paradox
III Notes on Implication and Classes
.1 Note on all and Formal Implication
.2 The Variable
.3 Note on Class
.4 Analytic Theory of aCb
.5 Classes, Implication, and Formal Implication
IV French Text of Paper 5
V Draft and French Text of Paper 8
.1 On the Logic of Relations with Applications to Arithmetic and the Theory of Series
.2 Sur la logique des relations avec des applications à la théorie des séries
VI Outline of Paper 9
VII Draft and French Text of Paper 12
.1 On the General Theory of Well-Ordered Series
.2 Théorie générale des séries bien ordonnées
VIII French Text of Paper 16
IX Geometry
.1 On Geometry and Dimensions
.2 Geometry in the 1901–02 Lectures
X Logic and Methodology as a Subject for the B.Sc. Degree
XI General Theory of Functions

Missing and Unprinted Texts
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
Symbols Index
General Index

[1994]

Edited by Alasdair Urquhart
With the assistance of Albert C. Lewis
London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Pages: lii, 743.
ISBN: 978-0-415-09406-1

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. EARLY FOUNDATIONAL WORK

1. Classes [1903]
a. Draft of *12 to *16
b. *12.5 etc.
c. General Theory of Classes
2. Relations [1903]
3. Functions [1903]
a. Functions and Objects
b. Primitive Propositions for Functions
c. No Greatest Cardinal
d. Functional Complexes
e. Complexes and Functions

PART II. THE ZIG-ZAG THEORY

4. Outlines of Symbolic Logic [1904]
5. On Functions, Classes and Relations [1904]
6. On Functions [1904]
7. Fundamental Notions [1904]
8. On the Functionality of Denoting Complexes [1904]
9. On the Nature of Functions [1904]
10. On Classes and Relations [1905]

PART III. THE THEORY OF DENOTING

11. On the Meaning and Denotation of Phrases [1903]
12. Dependent Variables and Denotation [1903]
13. Points about Denoting [1903]
14. On Meaning and Denotation [1903]
15. On Fundamentals [1905]
16. On Denoting [1905]

PART IV. PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (1898–99)

17. Meinong’s Theory of Complexes and Assumptions [1904]
18. The Axiom of Infinity [1904]
19. Non-Euclidean Geometry [1904]
20. The Existential Import of Propositions [1905]
21. The Nature of Truth [1905]
22. Necessity and Possibility [1905]
23. On the Relation of Mathematics to Symbolic Logic [1905]

PART V. PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS

24. Recent Work on the Philosophy of Leibniz [1903]
25. Review of Couturat, Opuscules et fragments inédits de Leibniz [1904]
26. Review of Geissler, Die Grundsätze und das Wesen des Unendlichen in der Mathematik und Philosophie [1903]
27. Principia Ethica [1903]
28. The Meaning of Good [1904]
29. Review of Delaporte, Essai philosophique sur les géométries non-euclidiennes [1904]
30. Review of Hinton, The Fourth Dimension [1904]
31. Review of Petronievics, Principien der Metaphysik [1905]
32. Science and Hypothesis [1905]
33. Review of Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis [1905]
34. Review of Meinong and Others, Untersuchungen zur Gegenstandstheorie und Psychologie [1905]

APPENDICES

I Frege on the Contradiction
II Comments on Definitions of Philosophical Terms
III Sur la relation des mathématiques à la logistique

Missing and Unprinted Texts
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

[2014]

Edited by Gregory H. Moore
London and New York: Routledge, 2014
Pages: c, 954
ISBN: 978-0-415-82098-1

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. NO-CLASSES THEORIES AND SUBSTITUTIONAL THEORIES, 1905–06

1. The Theory of Implication [1905–06]
2. On Some Difficulties in the Theory of Transfinite Numbers and Order Types [1905–06]
3. Early Work on the Substitutional Theory [1905]
a. A Letter to Hardy on Substitution
b. On Substitution
4. Developing the Substitutional Theory [1906–07]
a. Substitution
b. A Theory of Determination
c. *20ff.
d. Verbal Definitions
e. A Paradox of the Substitutional Theory
5. Two Drafts on Substitution [1906]
a. On Substitution
b. A Partial Draft
6. A Paper Withdrawn from Publication [1906]
a. On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations: Abstract
b. On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations
7. Logic in Which Propositions Are Not Entities [1906]
8. On the Functional Theory of Propositions, Classes and Relations [1906]
9. The Paradoxes of Logic [1906]
10. Multiplicative Axiom [1906]
11. The Paradox of the Liar [1906]
a. The Paradox of the Liar
b. A Partial Draft
12. List of Propositions [1906]

PART II. THEORIES OF TRUTH, 1906–08

13. Points about Denoting [1903]
a. What is Truth?
b. Review of Joachim, The Nature of Truth
14. On the Nature of Truth [1907]
15. The Nature of Truth [1907]
16. William James’s Conception of Truth [1908]

PART III. FROM SUBSTITUTIONAL THEORIES TO THE RAMIFIED THEORY OF TYPES, 1906–08

17. Corrections Required in Present Work [1906]
18. Early Drafts on the Theory of Types [1906–08]
a. Types
b. On Types
c. Notes on Types
d. Fourth Theory
e. Individuals
19. Fundamentals [1907]
20. The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics [1907]
21. “If” and “Imply”, A Reply to Mr. MacColl [1908]
22. Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types [1908]
23. Partial Drafts of Principia Mathematica [c.1908]
a. *10. Theory of One Apparent Variable
b. Deduction of Theory of Propositions of Higher Type from That of Those of Lower Type
c. *27. The Hierarchy of Types
d. *92. The Schröder–Bernstein Theorem
e. *130. Selections from Relations

PART IV. REVIEWS ON FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS

24. M. Poincaré’s Science et Hypothèse [1906]
25. Two Reviews of MacColl [1906]
a. Review of MacColl, Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, in the Athenaeum
b. Review of MacColl, Symbolic Logic and Its Applications, in Mind
26. Review of Pastore, Logica formale dedotta dalla considerazione di modelli meccanici [1906]
27. The Study of Logic [1906]
28. Two Reviews of Meinong [1905–06]
a. Review of Meinong, Über die Erfahrungsgrundlagen unseres Wissens [1906]
b. Review of Meinong, Über die Stellung der Gegenstandstheorie im System der Wissenschaften [1907]
29. Mr. Haldane on Infinity [1908]

PART V. OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS AND WRITINGS

30. Is Reason Irrational? [1906]
31. Metaphysics for the Man of Action [1907]
32. Spinoza’s Moral Code [1907]
33. Newton’s Philosophy [1908]
34. Determinism and Morals [1908]
35. Review of Essays, Philosophical and Psychological, in Honor of William James [1908]
36. A Reply to Dr. Schiller [1908]

APPENDICES

I Les Paradoxes de la logique [1906]
II Comments on Definitions of Philosophical Terms [1905–06]
III Notes on Ward’s Comments on The Principles of Mathematics [1905]
IV Berry’s Letters to Russell [1904–10]

Missing and Unprinted Texts
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
Symbols Index
General Index

[1992]

Edited by John G. Slater
with the assistance of Bernd Frohmann
London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
Pages: lxix, 562.
ISBN: 978-0-415-08446-8

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. LOGIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

1. The Theory of Logical Types [1910]
2. The Philosophical Importance of Mathematical Logic [1911]
3. On the Axioms of the Infinite and the Transfinite [1911]
4. What is Logic? [1912]
5. Reply to Koyré [1912]
6. Review of Reymond [1909]
7. Review of Carus [1910]
8. Review of Mannoury [1910]
9. A Medical Logician [1912]

PART II. THEORIES OF TRUTH, 1906–08

10. On Matter [1912]
11. Nine Short Manuscripts on Matter [1912–13]

PART III. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

12. On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood [1909]
13. The Basis of Realism [1911]
14. Analytic Realism [1911]
15. Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description [1911]
16. On the Relations of Universals and Particulars [1912]
17. The Nature of Sense-Data: A Reply to Dr. Dawes Hicks [1913]
18. On the Notion of Cause [1913]

PART IV. ETHICS

19. The Elements of Ethics [1909]
20. Spinoza [1910]

PART V. CRITIQUE OF PRAGMATISM

21. Pragmatism [1909]
22. The Philosophy of William James [1910]

23. Review of James’s Memories and Studies [1911]
24. Pragmatism and Logic [1912]
25. Review of James’s Essays in Radical Empiricism [1912]
26. Review of Boutroux [1912]

PART VI. CRITIQUE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF BERGSON

27. The Professor’s Guide to Laughter [1912]
28. The Philosophy of Bergson [1912]
29. Metaphysics and Intuition [1913]
30. Mr. Wildon Carr’s Defence of Bergson [1913]

PART VI. OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS AND WRITINGS

31. Some Explanations in Reply to Mr. Bradley [1910]
32. The Philosophy of Theism [1912]
33. Hegel and Common Sense [1912]
34. The Philosophy of Good Taste [1912]
35. The Twilight of the Absolute [1913]
36. Philosophy Made Orthodox [1913]

APPENDICES

I F.C.S. Schiller’s Replies to Papers 21 and 24 [1909–12]
II Preface to Philosophical Essays [1910]
III F.H. Bradley’s Criticism of Russell and His Reply to Russell [1910–11]
IV Sur les axiomes de l’infini et du transfini [1911]
V Le Réalisme analytique [1911]
VI G. Dawes Hicks’s “The Nature of Sense-Data” [1911]
VII Remarks on Opening the Section [1912]
VIII “Réponse à M. Koyré” [1912] and an English Translation of “Sur les Nombres de M. Russell” by A. Koyré
IX “On Mr. Russell’s Reasons for Supposing that Bergson’s Philosophy is Not True” by H. Wildon Carr

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

[1984; paperbound, 1992]

Edited by Elizabeth Ramsden Eames in collaboration with Kenneth Blackwell
London and Boston: George Allen & Unwin
Pp.: lv, 258.
ISBN: 978-0-415-10450-0
ISBN: 978-0-415-08446-8

Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. ON THE NATURE OF ACQUAINTANCE

Chap. I Preliminary Description of Experience
Chap. II Neutral Monism
Chap. III Analysis of Experience
Chap. IV Definitions and Methodological Principles in Theory of Knowledge
Chap. V Sensation and Imagination
Chap. VI On the Experience of Time
Chap. VII On the Acquaintance Involved in Our Knowledge of Relations
Chap. VIII Acquaintance with Predicates
Chap. IX Logical Data

PART II. ATOMIC PROPOSITIONAL THOUGHT

Chap. I The Understanding of Propositions
Chap. II Analysis and Synthesis
Chap. III Various Examples of Understanding

Chap. IV Belief, Disbelief, and Doubt
Chap. V Truth and Falsehood
Chap. VI Self-Evidence
Chap. VII Degrees of Certainty

APPENDICES

A.1 Course Description—Theory of Knowledge
A.2 Course Description—Advanced Logic
A.3 Outline—Theory of Knowledge
A.4 Diagrams—Relation and Judgment
A.5 Outline—Atomic Propositional Thought/Molecular Propositional Thought
A.6 Outline—Molecular Thought
A.7 Outline—Theory of Knowledge Lectures, Part II
B.1 Draft Paper—Props Complex
B.2 Diagrams—Relation and Judgment
C Reconstructed Table of Contents

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

8: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism and Other Essays, 1914–19 [1986]

Volume 8: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism and Other Essays, 1914–19

Edited by John G. Slater
London and Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1986
Pages: xl, 418
ISBN: 978-0-04-920074-6

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. ON THE NATURE OF ACQUAINTANCE

1. The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914]
2. Mysticism and Logic [1914]
3. Preface to Poincaré, Science and Method [1914]
4. On Scientific Method in Philosophy [1914]
5. The Ultimate Constituents of Matter [1915]
6. Letter on Sense-Data [1915]
7. Note on C.D. Broad’s Article in the July Mind [1919]

PART II. REVIEWS

8. Competitive Logic [1914]
9. Review of Ruge et al., Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences [1913]
10. Mr. Balfour’s Natural Theology [1914]
11. Idealism on the Defensive [1917]
12. Metaphysics [1917]
13. A Metaphysical Defence of the Soul [1917]
14. Pure Reason at Königsberg [1918]
15. Review of Broad, Perception, Physics, and Reality [1918]
16. Professor Dewey’s Essays in Experimental Logic [1919]

PART III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL ATOMISM

17. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918]

PART IV. TOWARDS THE ANALYSIS OF MIND

18. Manuscript Notes [1918]
a. On Sensations and Ideas
b. Behaviourism and Knowledge
c. Introspection as a Source of Knowledge
d. Three Notes on Memory
e. Views as to Judgment, Discarding the Subject
f. Belief and Judgment
g. Three Subjects
h. Propositions
i. Thoughts on Language, Leading to Language of Thought
19. On “Bad Passions” [1919]
20. On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean [1919]

APPENDICES

I C.D. Broad’s Paper on Phenomenalism [1915]
II Bertrand Russell’s Notes on the New Work He Intends to Undertake [1918]
III Philosophical Books Read in Prison [1918]
IV Duddington’s Letter on Existence [1918]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

Edited by John G. Slater
London and Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1986
Pages: xl, 418
ISBN: 978-0-04-920074-6

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. ON THE NATURE OF ACQUAINTANCE

1. The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914]
2. Mysticism and Logic [1914]
3. Preface to Poincaré, Science and Method [1914]
4. On Scientific Method in Philosophy [1914]
5. The Ultimate Constituents of Matter [1915]
6. Letter on Sense-Data [1915]
7. Note on C.D. Broad’s Article in the July Mind [1919]

PART II. REVIEWS

8. Competitive Logic [1914]
9. Review of Ruge et al., Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences [1913]
10. Mr. Balfour’s Natural Theology [1914]
11. Idealism on the Defensive [1917]
12. Metaphysics [1917]
13. A Metaphysical Defence of the Soul [1917]
14. Pure Reason at Königsberg [1918]
15. Review of Broad, Perception, Physics, and Reality [1918]
16. Professor Dewey’s Essays in Experimental Logic [1919]

PART III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGICAL ATOMISM

17. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918]

PART IV. TOWARDS THE ANALYSIS OF MIND

18. Manuscript Notes [1918]
a. On Sensations and Ideas
b. Behaviourism and Knowledge
c. Introspection as a Source of Knowledge
d. Three Notes on Memory
e. Views as to Judgment, Discarding the Subject
f. Belief and Judgment
g. Three Subjects
h. Propositions
i. Thoughts on Language, Leading to Language of Thought
19. On “Bad Passions” [1919]
20. On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean [1919]

APPENDICES

I C.D. Broad’s Paper on Phenomenalism [1915]
II Bertrand Russell’s Notes on the New Work He Intends to Undertake [1918]
III Philosophical Books Read in Prison [1918]
IV Duddington’s Letter on Existence [1918]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

[1988]

Edited by John G. Slater
with the assistance of Bernd Frohmann
London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988
Pages: xl, 658
ISBN: 978-0-415-09917-2

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND PSYCHOLOGY

1. Analysis of Mind [1919]
Headnote to Three Short Manuscripts (2–4)
2. Miscellaneous Notes [1919]
3. Analysis of Knowing [1919]
4. Points on Memory [1919]
Headnote to Reviews of Two Psychology Books (5–6)
5. Feeble-Minded and Others [1920]
6. What Constitutes Intelligence? [1923]
7. Mr. Bertrand Russell’s Analysis of Mind [1922]
8. Instinct and the Unconscious [1922]
9. Dr. Schiller’s Analysis of The Analysis of Mind [1922]
10. Behaviourism [1923]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Broad (11–12)
11. Mind and Matter [1925]
12. Review of C.D. Broad, The Mind and Its Place in Nature [1926]
13. Behaviourism and Values [1926]

PART II. LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY AND SEMANTICS

Headnote to Two Reviews of Bosanquet (14–15)
14. Is Logic Deductive? [1920]
15. The Nature of Inference [1920]
16. The Meaning of “Meaning” [1920]
17. Mathematical Philosophy [1920]
18. Introduction to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921]
19. Review of J.M. Keynes, A Treatise on Probability [1922]
20. Physics and Perception [1922]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Ogden and Richards (21–22)
21. The Mastery of Words [1923]
22. The Meaning of Meaning [1926]
23. Vagueness [1923]
Headnote to Two Working Papers for the Second Edition of Principia Mathematica (24–25)
24. Truth-Functions and Meaning-Functions [1923]
25. What is Meant by “A believes p”? [1923]
26. Logical Atomism [1924]
27. Perception [1926]
28. Theory of Knowledge [1926]

PART III. SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Headnote to Five Papers on Relativity Theory (29–33)
29. Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation [1919]
30. The Relativity Theory of Gravitation [1920]
31. The Theory of Relativity [1922]
32. Einstein [1923]
33. Philosophical Consequences of Relativity [1926]
Headnote to Reviews of Four Books on the Theory of Relativity (34–37)
34. Relativity, Scientific and Metaphysical [1922]
35. Science and Metaphysics [1923]
36. The New Gravitation [1924]
37. Relativity in Dialogue Form [1926]
Headnote to Four Papers on the Atom (38–41)
38. The Interior of the Atom [1923]
39. The Atom: Its Structure and Its Problems [1923]
40. Atoms in Modern Physics [1924]
41. The Structure of the Atom [1925]
Headnote to Reviews of Four Books on Science and Mathematics (42–45)
42. Review of C.D. Broad, Scientific Thought [1923]
43. The Beginnings of Mathematics [1924]
44. Natural Laws [1924]
45. Leonardo as a Man of Science [1926]
46. The Philosophical Analysis of Matter [1925]

47. Introduction to Vasiliev’s Space Time Motion [1924]
48. Materialism, Past and Present [1924]
49. Preface to Nicod’s La Géométrie dans le monde sensible [1924]
Headnote to Reviews of Burtt and Whitehead (50–52)
50. The Dogmas of Naturalism [1925]
51. Relativity and Religion [1926]
52. Is Science Superstitious? [1926]

PART IV. ETHICS, POLITICS AND RELIGION

Headnote to Reviews of Two Books in Political Philosophy (53–54)
53. Philosophers and Rebels [1919]
54. Philosophy and Virtue [1919]
55. Review of Clutton-Brock [1919]
a. The Mystic Vision [1919]
b. The Mystic Vision [1919]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Lossky (56–57)
56. The Possibility of Knowledge [1919]
57. Is Knowledge Intuitive? [1919]
58. Is There an Absolute Good? [1922]
Headnote to Reviews of Two Books in Ethics (59–60)
59. What is Morality? [1922]
60. Does Ethics Influence Life? [1924]
61. Psychology and Politics [1926]
62. A Russian Communist Philosopher [1926]

PART IV. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND INDIVIDUAL PHILOSOPHERS

63. The Religion of Neo-Platonism [1919]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Aristotelian Society Publications (64–65)
64. Philosophy and the Soul [1919]
65. A Microcosm of British Philosophy [1919]
Headnote to Three Reviews of Joad (66–68)
66. Common-Sense Philosophy [1919]
67. Philosophy without Paradox [1919]
68. A Philosophic Realist [1919]
Headnote to Reviews of American, British and Irish Philosophers (69–73)
69. The Noble Army of Philosophers [1919]
70. The Wisdom of Our Ancestors [1920]
71. Analytic and Synthetic Philosophers [1922]
72. Philosophic Idealism at Bay [1922]
73. The Christian Warrior [1922]
Headnote to Five Reviews of Santayana (74–78)
74. The Aroma of Evanescence [1922]
75. What Constitutes Rationality? [1923]
76. A Synthetic Mind [1923]
77. Mephistopheles and the Brute [1923]
78. A New System of Philosophy [1923]
79. From Comte to Bergson [1922]
80. Lord Balfour on Methodological Doubt [1923]
Headnote to Reviews of Three Books on Eastern Philosophy (81–82)
81. Philosophy in India and China [1923]
82. Early Chinese Philosophy [1923]
83. Philosophy in the Twentieth Century [1924]

APPENDICES

I “A New Theory of Measurement” [1919]
II Two Letters on “The Mystic Vision” [1919]
III Syllabuses of Lecture Courses [1919–26]
IV F.C.S. Schiller’s “Mr. Russell’s Psychology” [1922]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

[1996]

Edited by John G. Slater with the assistance of Peter Kollner
London and New York: Routledge, 1996
Pages: xxxvii, 886
ISBN: 978-0-415-09408-5.

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS

1. Things That Have Moulded Me [1927]
2. How I Came By My Creed [1929]
3. My Religious Reminiscences [1938]

PART II. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

4. Events, Matter, and Mind [1927]
5. Had Newton Never Lived [1927]
6. Einstein [1928]
7. The Future of Science [1928]
Headnote to Four Reviews of Eddington (8–11)
8. Physics and Theology [1929]
9. Review of Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World [1928]
10. Review of Sir Arthur Eddington, The Expanding Universe [1933]
11. Scientific Certainty and Uncertainty [1935]
12. Review of James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe [1930]
13. Determinism and Physics [1936]
14. Headnote to Papers 14a–14b
a. Philosophy and Common Sense [1938]
b. Philosophy and Common Sense [1938]

PART III. LOGIC AND PROBABILITY THEORY

15. Mr. F.P. Ramsey on Logical Paradoxes [1928]
16. A Tribute to Morris Raphael Cohen [1927]
17. Probability and Fact [1930]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Ramsey (18–19)
18. Review of Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics [1931]
19. Review of Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics [1931]
20. Congress of Scientific Philosophy [1936]
21. On Order in Time [1936]
22. On the Importance of Logical Form [1938]
23. Dewey’s New Logic [1939]

PART IV. EDUCATIONAL THEORY

24. How Behaviourists Teach Behaviour [1928]
25. The Application of Science to Education [1928]

PART V. WRITINGS CRITICAL OF RELIGION

26. Why I Am Not a Christian [1927]
27. Bertrand Russell’s Confession of Faith [1927]
28. What Is the Soul? [1929]
29. Why Mr. Wood Is Not a Freethinker [1929]
30. Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? [1929]
31. Is Religion Desirable? [1929]
32. Morality and Religion [1929]
33. Science and Religion [1935?]
34. Need Morals Have a Religious Basis? [1937]
35. The Existence and Nature of God [1939]

PART VI. EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS

36. Physics and Metaphysics [1928]
37. On the Value of Scepticism [1928]
38. Bertrand Russell Replies [1929]
39. Analysis of Mind [1932]
40. The Decrease of Knowledge [1935]

41. Headnote to Three Papers on “Useless” Knowledge [1933– 35]
a. The Social Importance of Culture [1933]
b. On Curious Learning [1934]
c. “Useless Knowledge” [1935]
42. The Limits of Empiricism [1936]
43. Philosophy and Grammar [1936]
44. Philosophy’s Ulterior Motives [1937]
45. On Verification [1938]
46. The Relevance of Psychology to Logic [1938]
47. Non-Materialistic Naturalism [1942]

PART VII. ETHICS AND POLITICS

48. How Will Science Change Morals? [1928]
49. Democracy and Emotion [1929]
50. Is There a New Morality? [1929]
51. How Science Has Changed Society [1932]
Headnote to Four Papers on Ethics and Law for the Hearst Newspapers (52–55)
52. On Utilitarianism [1933]
53. Individualist Ethics [1933]
54. Respect for Law [1933]
55. Competitive Ethics [1934]
56. The Philosophy of Communism [1934]
57. The Ancestry of Fascism [1935]
58. Freedom and Government [1940]
59. On Keeping a Wide Horizon [1941]

PART VIII. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

60. Philosophy in the Twentieth Century [1936]
61. Plato in Modern Dress [1937]
62. The Philosophy of Santayana [1940]
Headnote to Four Dialogues with Fellow Authors (63–66)
63. Hegel: Philosophy of History [1941]
64. Descartes: A Discourse on Method [1942]
65. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics [1942]
66. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland [1942]

PART IX. THE “HOW-TO” SERIES

Headnote to Three “How-To” Papers (67–69)
67. How To Become a Philosopher [1942]
68. How To Become a Logician [1942]
69. How To Become a Mathematician [1942]

APPENDICES

I Syllabus for Lecture Course [1927]
II “Achilles and the Tortoise” by F.P. Ramsey [1927]
III “Sweet Treasonableness” by S.D. Schmalhausen [1928]
IV “The Scientific Society” by Bertrand Russell [1933]
V Report in Fabian News of Paper 57 [1935]
VI [Manuscript 220.016640] [1937?]
VII Two Letters by Hyman Levy [1938]
VIII “The Relevance of Psychology to Logic” by R.B. Braithwaite [1938]
IX John Dewey’s Reply to Paper 23 [1939]
X Santayana’s Reply to Paper 62 [1940]
XI “A Philosophy for You in These Times” [1941]
XII Notes on Descartes for Paper 64 [1942]
XIII Notes for Lewis Carroll Broadcast, Paper 66 [1942]
XIV Nine Manuscripts Preliminary to Paper 42 [1936]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

[1997]

Edited by John G. Slater with the assistance of Peter Kollner
London and New York: Routledge, 1997
Pages: xxx, 859
ISBN: 978-0-415-09409-2

Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS

Headnote to Three Contributions to The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (1–2b)
1. My Mental Development [1944]
2. Russell’s Replies
a. Reply to Criticisms [1944]
b. Addendum to My “Reply to Criticisms” [1965]
3. My Own Philosophy [1946]
4. The Faith of a Rationalist [1947]
5. Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic? A Plea for Tolerance in the Face of New Dogmas [1949]
Headnote to Four Autobiographical Broadcasts (6–9)
6. Why I Took to Philosophy [1955]
7. Some Philosophical Contacts [1955]
8. Beliefs: Discarded and Retained [1955]
9. My Debt to German Learning [1955]

PART II. NON-DEMONSTRATIVE INFERENCE

Headnote to Five Papers on Non-Demonstrative Inference (10–14)
10. Project of Future Work [1943]
11. Postulates of Scientific Method [1943]
12. Non-Deductive Inference [1945?]
13. Postulates of Scientific Inference [1948]
14. Note on Non-Demonstrative Inference and Induction [1959]
15. The Nature and Origin of Scientific Method [1948]

PART III. ON SOME OF HIS YOUNGER CONTEMPORARIES

Headnote to Two Papers on Logical Positivism (16–17)
16. Logical Positivism [1945]
17. Logical Positivism [1950]
Headnote to Two Reviews of Ayer (18–19)
18. Review of A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic [1947]
19. Light versus Heat [1954]
20. Ludwig Wittgenstein [1951]

PART IV. ON SOME OF HIS OLDER CONTEMPORARIES

21. Foreword to Feibleman, Introduction to Peirce’s Philosophy [1946]
Headnote to Three Papers on Whitehead (22–24)
22. Whitehead and Principia Mathematica [1948]
23. Alfred North Whitehead [1952]
24. A Sage’s Table-Talk [1954]
25. Reminiscences of McTaggart [1948]
26. George Santayana [1953]
Headnote to Two Papers on G.E. Moore (27–28)
27. Prof. G.E. Moore/Influence on Lord Russell [1958]
28. The Influence and Thought of G.E. Moore [1959]
29. Preface to Le Probleme logique de l’induction, Jean Nicod [1961]

PART V. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

30. Headnote to Two Papers on Philosophy
a. Philosophy [1945?]
b. Philosophy [1945?]
31. Hume [1946]
32. Mind and Matter in Modern Science [1945]
33. The Problem of Universals [1946]
34. Rewards of Philosophy [1948]
35. Mind and Matter [1950]
36. The Principle of Individuation [1950]
37. Perception [1957]
38. Notes on Philosophy [1960]

PART VI. LOGIC AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

39. Preface to William Kingdon Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences [1946]
40. Review of Rupert Crawshay-Williams, The Comforts of Unreason [1947]
41. William of Occam: Empiricist and Democrat [1949]
42. When Is an Opinion Rational? [1950]

43. Is Mathematics Purely Linguistic? [1950]
44. Mathematical Infinity [1958]

PART VII. ETHICS AND POLITICS

45. The Thinkers Behind Germany’s Sins [1944]
46. What Is Democracy? [1946]
Headnote to Papers 47–48
47. Philosophy for Laymen [1946]
48. Comments on Articles on Philosophy [1947]
49. A Plea for Clear Thinking [1947]
50. Philosophy and Politics [1947]
51. Review of Amber Blanco White, Ethics for Unbelievers [1949]
52. Le Philosophe en temps de crise [1950]
53. Freedom and the Philosopher [1951]
54. Reason and Passion [1952]
55. The Idea of Progress [1953]
56. The Spirit of Inquiry [1953]
57. A Philosophy for Our Time [1953]
58. Knowledge and Wisdom [1954]
59. The Duty of a Philosopher in This Age [1964]

PART VIII. JOHN STUART MILL

Headnote to Eight Papers on John Stuart Mill (60–67)
60. John Stuart Mill and the Idea of Liberty [1948]
61. Mill on Liberty [1950]
62. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty [1951]
63. The Saint of Rationalism [1954]
64. A Good-Hearted Philosopher [1954]
65. Influence of John Stuart Mill [1955]
66. John Stuart Mill [1955]
67. A Discussion on Liberty [1956]

PART IX. CRITIQUE OF RELIGION

68. The Existence of God [1948]
69. Is There a God? [1952]
70. What is an Agnostic? [1953]
71. Do Science and Religion Conflict? [1954]
72. Preface to Why I am Not a Christian [1957]

PART X. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Headnote to Eight Papers on Einstein (73–80)
73. Einstein and the Theory of Relativity [1949]
74. Man of the Half-Century? I Choose Einstein [1950]
75. Albert Einstein [1955]
76. The Greatness of Albert Einstein [1955]
77. Preface to Einstein on Peace [1960]
78. Statement on Einstein [1964]
79. Broadcast Concerning Einstein [1965]
80. Foreword to The Born–Einstein Letters [1968]

PART XI. CRITIQUE OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY

Headnote to Six Papers on Ordinary Language Philosophy (81–86)
81. The Cult of “Common Usage” [1953]
82. Philosophical Analysis [1956]
83. Logic and Ontology [1957]
84. Mr. Strawson on Referring [1957]
85. What is Mind? [1958]
86. Introduction to Ernest Gellner, Words and Things [1959]

APPENDICES

I “Philosophy for Lay Students” by W.B. Gallie [1947]
II Le Principe d’individuation [1950]
III Un Filosofo de Buon Cuore [1954]
IV Foreword to Logic and Knowledge [1956]
V “Infinity” by E.R. Emmet [1957]
VI [Manuscript RA1 220.016640]
VII Russell’s Notes on Warnock, Strawson, Ryle and Gellner
VIII Russell’s Last Philosophical Writing [1968]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index