Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical AtomismBertrand Russell's philosophy of logical atomism has had a major influence on the development of analytic philosophy. The essential features of this atomism were presented in eight lectures delivered by Russell in 1919. This book is an exposition of those lectures for readers with minimal philosophical training, the aim being to provide a sound understanding of the problems which Russell addresses as well as an awareness of the acceptability of his proposed solutions. Easily grasped examples are used to aid the exposition, but over-simplification of difficult problems is avoided. |
Contents
SETTING THE FRAMEWORK | 1 |
RUSSELLS FIRST LECTURE | 13 |
RUSSELLS SECOND LECTURE | 55 |
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acquaintance answer apprehend argument assert atomic proposition axioms belief fact belief propositions class of classes colour component conjunction consists constituents defined definite descriptions Demos desk discussion example existence propositions following proposition genuine entities George Tan identical incompatibility instance King of France knowledge lecture Lee Kuan Yew logical atomism logical constructions logical fictions logically equivalent logically perfect language logically proper name material implication mathematics meaningful meaningless molecular proposition mortal natural number negation negative facts negative proposition Neutral Monism notion Occam's razor ontology particular perceiving person philosophical physical objects possible predicate present King problem proposition is true proposition stands propositional function question relation Romulus Russell means Russell says Russell's analysis Russell's paradox Russell's theory semantic sense sense-data sentence simple object simple symbol Socrates Suppose symbol stands talk theory of descriptions theory of meaning thing true or false truth-table understand the meaning word wrote Waverley