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15Scientific Method in PhilosophyRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 42 (1): 81-91. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Scientific Method in PhilosophyAuthor's note: Thanks to Gregory Landini for helpful clarifications.Gregory Landini. Repairing Bertrand Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge. (History of Analytic Philosophy.) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Pp. x, 397. isbn: 978-3-030-66355-1, us$139 (hb); 978-3-030-66356-8, us$109 (ebook).The title of this book might suggest a rather narrow study of a problem with Russell's Theory of Knowledge and a p…Read more
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51The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell (edited book)Bloomsbury. 2018.A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers. The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell explores this influence in detail and responds to renewed interest in Russell's philosophical approach, presenting the best guide to research in Russell studies today. Bringing new insights into Russell's relationship with his contemporaries, a team of experts explore his life-long battl…Read more
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15The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell (edited book)BloomsburyAcademic. 2018.A founder of modern analytic philosophy and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell has influenced generations of philosophers. This volume explores this influence in detail and responds to renewed interest in Russell's philosophical approach, presenting the best guide to research in Russell studies today. Bringing new insights into Russell's relationship with his contemporaries, a team of experts explore his life-long battles with important philosophical i…Read more
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49Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies : Special Issue on Russell and LeibnizThe Leibniz Review 28 103-108. 2018.
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22The Paradoxes and the Theory of Types [review of Philippe de Rouilhan, Russell et le cercle des paradoxes ]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 17 (2). 1997.
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Propositions and Facts in the Early Philosophy of Bertrand RussellDissertation, Indiana University. 1982.This dissertation is a study of Bertrand Russell's views on propositions, propositional functions and facts from 1900 to 1920. Russell's views on the ontological status of propositions are shown to be connected with his changing views on the status of propositional functions and his difficulties with denoting complexes. His difficulties concerning both propositions and denoting complexes are put in the perspective of his overall ontological and semantical views. I argue that these difficulties a…Read more
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Rene Descartes, The World and Other Writings Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (6): 401-403. 1999.
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JG Slater, ed., The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 8 Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (5): 214-216. 1987.
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15Principia ’s Second Edition [review of Bernard Linsky, The Evolution of Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell’s Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition ] (review)Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 33 (1): 59-67. 2013.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 33 (summer 2013): 59–94 The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn 0036–01631; online 1913–8032 oeviews PRINCIPIA’S SECOND EDITION Russell Wahl English and Philosophy / Idaho State U. Pocatello, id 83209, usa [email protected] Bernard Linsky. The Evolution of Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell’s Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge U. …Read more
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179Russell's theory of meaning and denotation and "on denoting"Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1): 71-94. 1993.
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151"On Denoting" and the Principle of AcquaintanceRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 27 (1): 7-23. 2007.While Russell’s concerns in developing the theory of descriptions were primarily with his foundation of logic, he was aware of the epistemological uses of both the theory of denoting concepts and the 1905 theory of deWnite descriptions. At the end of “On Denoting” he suggests that the principle of acquaintance is a “result” of the new theory of denoting. In this paper I examine the relation between the theory of descriptions and the principle of acquaintance, and I reject two suggestions, one th…Read more
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84Descartes, Leibniz and Berkeley on Whether We Can Dream Marks of the Waking StateStudia Leibnitiana 24 (2): 177-181. 1992.Dans la première méditation, Descartes a conclu, en regard des songes, « qu'il n'y a point d'indices concluants, ni de marques assez certaines par où l'on puisse distinguer nettement la veille d'avec la sommeil [...] » . À la fin de la sixième méditation, il a conclu qu'il y a de tels indices, mais qu'on a besoin de la garantie de Dieu pour savoir si ces indices sont réellement des indices de la veille. Cottingham a proposé une objection générale contre tels indices de la veille: On peut rêver c…Read more
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16The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia MathematicaHistory and Philosophy of Logic 37 (3): 294-297. 2016.The year 2010 saw the centenary of the publication of the first volume of Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica. There were several conferences that year on this work and several collection...
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J.G. Slater, Ed., The Collected Papers Of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 8 (review)Philosophy in Review 7 214-216. 1987.
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20A Brief Introduction to Logical Atomism [review of Ali Benmakhlouf, Bertrand Russell: L'atomisme logique ]Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 18 (2). 1998.
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35Some consequences of possibilismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 65 (4). 1987.This Article does not have an abstract
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52Occasionalism, Laws and General WillBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2): 219-240. 2011.Malebranche held that God acts only by general volitions and so is not constantly interfering in the world. The content of God's volitions appears to include the general laws of nature and the particular initial configuration of the created world, so that occasional or natural causes have an important explanatory role. It is clear that at the least Malebranche meant by a 'general volition' the willing of events which followed general laws. Steven Nadler argued that this is all we should understa…Read more
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21Wittgenstein, Critic of Russell [Jérôme Sackur, Formes et faits: Analyse et théorie de la connaissance dans l’atomisme logique ] (review)Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 28 (1): 69-73. 2008.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:September 27, 2008 (1:09 pm) G:\WPData\TYPE2801\russell 28,1 048RED.wpd russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 28 (summer 2008): 69–93 The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn 0036-01631; online 1913-8032 eviews WITTGENSTEIN, CRITIC OF RUSSELL Russell Wahl English and Philosophy / Idaho State U Pocatello, id 83209, usa [email protected] Jérôme Sackur. Formes et faits: Analyse et théorie de la connaissance …Read more
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37Reflections from Principia Mathematica [review of Alexandre Guay, ed., Autour des Principia Mathematica de Russell et Whitehead ] (review)Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 34 (2): 171-176. 2014.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviews 171 c:\users\ken\documents\type3402\rj 3402 050 red.docx 2015-02-04 9:19 PM REFLECTIONS FROM PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA Russell Wahl English and Philosophy / Idaho State U. Pocatello, id 83209 usa [email protected] Alexandre Guay, ed. Autour des Principia Mathematica de Russell et Whitehead. (Collection Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences.) Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2012. Pp. 168. isbn 978-2-36441-001-4. €20.00 (pb)…Read more
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25The Arnauld-Malebranche Controversy and Descartes’ IdeasThe Monist 71 (4): 560-572. 1988.From 1683 to 1685 Arnauld engaged in a controversy with Malebranche over the nature of ideas. While the occasion for the dispute was a disagreement over grace, the focus was the account of ideas given in Malebranche’s Search After Truth. Arnauld published his Des vraies et des fausses idées in 1683, and this was followed by a response from Malebranche in 1684 and a response by Arnauld shortly afterward. In his criticism of Malebranche, Arnauld claimed to be reacting not just for himself, but for…Read more
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225Russellian Analysis [review of Paul J. Hager, Continuity and Change in the Development of Russell's Philosophy ] (review)Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 16 (2). 1996.
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40Impossible propositions and the forms of objects in Wittgenstein's tractatusPhilosophical Quarterly 45 (179): 190-198. 1995.
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23Russell's Logicism [review of Denis Vernant, La Philosophie mathématique de Bertrand Russell ] (review)Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 14 (1). 1994.
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96 Occasional CausesIn Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & Harry Silverstein (eds.), Causation and Explanation, Bradford. pp. 4--119. 2007.
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78Colour: Physical or phenomenal?Philosophy 73 (284): 301-304. 1998.We wish to defend Jonathan Westphal's view that colour is complex against a recent ‘phenomenological’ criticism of Eric Rubenstein. There is often thought to be a conflict between two kinds of determinants of colour, physical and phenomenal. On the one hand there are the complex physical facts about colour, such as the determination of a surface colour by an absorption spectrum. There is also, however, the fact that the apparently simple phenomenological quality of what is seen is a function of …Read more
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