Bertrand Russell: philosopher of the century. / Essays in his honour edited by Ralph Schoenman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schoenman, Ralph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Russell, Bertrand.

Physical Description:

326 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1967, i.e. 1968]

Contents:

Fifty years, 1916-1966, By C. Malleson.

An old friendship by J. Trevelyan.

Fifty years' influence, by V. Purcell.

To oppose the stream by I. F. Stone.

Civil disobedience and morals, by M. Scott.

Prophets and priests, by E. Fromm.

Would civilization survive a nuclear war? by L. Pauling.

The relevance of style, by A. Huxley.

A philosophical debt, by H. Read.

Some personal impressions of Russell as a philosopher. Some remarks on sense-perception, by C. D. Broad.

Reflections of a physicist, by M. Born.

An early appreciation, by H. Reichenbach.

Russell's concept of philosophy, by W. Bloch.

An appraisal of Bertrand Russell's philosophy, by A. J. Ayer.

Existence and description in formal logic: what has it done for the philosophy of mathematics? by G. Kreisel.

The thesis that mathematics is logic, by H. Putnam.

Russell's ontological development, by W. V. Quine.

Notes:

"An Atlantic monthly press book."

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

5768265