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1. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity

   By Harold Noonan

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking fundamental questions – how do names refer to things...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Kant and Non-Conceptual Content

   Edited by Dietmar Heidemann

   Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent. By contrast, non-conceptualism is the view that mental representations of the world do not necessarily presuppose...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Reissuing several works originally published between 1918 and 1985, Routledge Library Editions: Russell offers a selection of scholarship covering the life and theories of Bertrand Russell. Russell (1872-1970) is the twentieth century’s most important liberal thinker and probably its greatest...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell

   By Kenneth Blackwell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Bertrand Russell’s professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell considers Russell’s writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers the conceptual unity in Russell’s normative...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll

   With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works. A Skit.

   Edited by Philip E. B. Jourdain

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   This skit of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell’s correspondent friend Jourdain. The introduction explains that the contents purport to be lost papers written by Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll, a contemporary of Bertrand Russell. This politically humorous volume from...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Bertrand Russell: A Life

   By Herbert Gottschalk

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Bertrand Russell’s eminence of intellect and person has long been unassailable. Besides his distinction as mathematician and philosopher, and a vast output of books, articles, lectures and talks on most aspects of the human condition, there is his continuing concern for day-to-day political issues,...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Bertrand Russell's Theory of Knowledge

   By Elizabeth Ramsden Eames

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell’s logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance. Yet until this book was first published in 1969 no comprehensive treatment of his epistemology had appeared....

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Bertrand Russell On Education

   By Joe Park

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Although scholars from many disciplines have turned their attention to Russell’s work and appraised its significance for a number of fields, and an extensive literature on him emerged, until this book, first published in 1963, no thorough study on Russell’s contribution to education – an area to...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic

   By Alan Wood

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   ‘Fascinating’, ‘brilliant’, ‘oddly moving’, ‘a warm human picture’ – this biography was enthusiastically received when it came out in 1957. And no wonder. It is not only the lively story of a distinguished man but a lucid account of his work and its significance. The author, who was himself a...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. Bertrand Russell's America

    His Transatlantic Travels and Writings. Volume One 1896-1945

    By Barry Feinberg, Ronald Kasrils

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

    Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell’s travels in America covering the period 1896-1945. It is presented in two halves with the first a biographical account of Russell’s involvement with the United States, with special reference to the seven visits he made there...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge