My Philosophical Development
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Author | Bertrand Russell |
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Language | English |
Subject | Philosophy |
Publication date | 1959 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
My Philosophical Development is a 1959 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life.[1]
Summary
Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano. After two chapters on Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), he passes to the problems of perception as dealt with in Our Knowledge of the External World (1914). In a chapter on ‘The Impact of Wittgenstein’, Russell examines what he now thinks must be accepted and what rejected in that philosopher's work. He notes the changes from earlier theories required by the adoption of William James's view that sensation is not essentially relational and is not per se a form of knowledge. In an explanatory chapter, he endeavors to remove misconceptions of and objections to his theories as to the relation of perception to scientific knowledge. Russell concludes with a reprint of some articles on modern Oxford philosophy.
References
- ^ Smith, T. V. (1959), "My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell", Ethics, 70 (1): 93–94, doi:10.1086/291259, JSTOR 2379632.
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- The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- Why Men Fight (1916)
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- Free Thought and Official Propaganda (1922)
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- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935)
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- A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
- My Philosophical Development (1959)
- Alys Pearsall Smith (wife, 1894–1921)
- Dora Russell (wife, 1921–35)
- Patricia Russell (wife, 1936–51)
- Edith Finch Russell (wife, 1952–70)
- John Russell, 4th Earl Russell (son)
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (son)
- Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (brother)
- John Russell, Viscount Amberley (father)
- Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley (mother)
- John Stuart Mill (godfather)
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (paternal grandfather)
- Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (maternal grandmother)
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