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100 1 _aRussell, Bertrand
245 1 4 _aBasic writings of Bertrand Russell
_cBertrand Russell.
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_cc2009.
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300 _axxxii, 749p.;
490 0 _aRoutledge classics
500 _aOriginally publishedas: Basic writings, 1903-1959, London : George Allen & Unwin, 1961.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aAutobiographical asides -- My religious reminiscences -- My mental development -- Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome -- Why I took to philosophy -- The Nobel Prize winning man of letters (essayist and short story writer) -- How I write -- A free man's worship -- An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity -- The metaphysician's nightmare -- The philosopher of language -- Language -- Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech -- The uses of language -- The cult of "common usage" -- The logician and philosopher of mathematics -- Symbolic logic -- On induction -- Preface to Principia mathematica -- Introduction to Principia mathematica -- Summary of part III, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part V, Principia mathematica -- Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica -- Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica -- Mathematics and logic -- The validity of inference -- Dewey's new logic -- John Dewey -- The epistemologist -- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge -- By description -- Theory of knowledge -- Epistemological premisses -- The metaphysician -- Materialism, past and present -- Language and metaphysics -- The retreat from Pythagoras -- Historian of philosophy -- Philosophy in the twentieth century -- Aristotle's logic -- St Thomas Aquinas -- Currents of thought in the nineteenth century -- The philosophy of logical analysis -- The psychologist -- Psychological and physical causal laws -- Truth and falsehood -- Knowledge behaviouristically considered -- The moral philosopher -- Styles in ethics -- The place of sex among human values -- Individual and social ethics -- "What I believe" -- The expanding mental universe -- The philosopher of education -- Education -- The aims of education -- Emotion and discipline -- The functions of a teacher -- The philosopher of politics -- The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship -- Philosophy and politics -- Politically important desires -- Why I am not a communist -- The philosopher in the field of economics -- Property -- Dialectical materialism -- The theory of surplus value -- The philosopher of history -- On history -- The materialistic theory of history -- History as an art -- The philosopher of culture: East and West -- Chinese and Western civilization contrasted -- Eastern and Western ideals of happiness -- The philosopher of religion -- The essence of religion -- What is an agnostic? -- Why I am not a Christian -- Can religion cure our troubles? -- The philosopher and expositor of science -- Physics and neutral monism -- Science and education -- Limitations of scientific method -- The new physics and relativity -- Science and values -- Non-demonstrative inference -- The analyst of international affairs -- The taming of power -- If we are to survive this dark time -- What would help mankind most? -- Current perplexities -- World government -- The next half-century -- Life without fear -- Science and human life -- Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev -- Man's peril -- Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear age.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
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