Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i2.5045
Michael D. Stevenson
Abstract:Bertrand Russell left the “bleak hideousness” of Chicago in March 1939 to accept an appointment at the University of California at Los Angeles. Scholarly analysis of Russell’s sojourn in California has focused on the College of the City of New York controversy that engulfed him in the winter term of 1940 and his subsequent departure from ucla to take up the William James Lectureship at Harvard University. This paper concentrates on Russell’s appointment to ucla and his experience teaching in Los Angeles during the 1939–40 academic year in an attempt to reconstruct his activities during this tumultuous period while he resided in America between 1938 and 1944.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i2.5048
T. Simpson
{"title":"On a Logician’s Mantelpiece: Cantor","authors":"T. Simpson","doi":"10.15173/russell.v41i2.5048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v41i2.5048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43911586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay analyses Bertrand Russell as a historical writer and theorist of history. His most influential work of history—the History of Western Philosophy—is subjected, for the first time, to the standards of Russell’s own principles of historiography, as laid out in a series of essays published over his lifetime. Considering the full gamut of reactions to Russell’s History, the essay investigates whether the numerous criticisms laid against this work may be answered or ameliorated by contextualizing his writing within his own theories regarding the role and scope of the historian. Such an approach, it is argued, is partially successful. While Russell’s writings on the discipline of history shed considerable light upon many of his own idiosyncrasies as a historical writer, there are still several strong criticisms of his work that remain unanswered.
{"title":"Russell’s Historiographical Excursion: Between a History of Philosophy and A Philosophy of History","authors":"J. Kimche","doi":"10.1353/rss.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rss.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyses Bertrand Russell as a historical writer and theorist of history. His most influential work of history—the History of Western Philosophy—is subjected, for the first time, to the standards of Russell’s own principles of historiography, as laid out in a series of essays published over his lifetime. Considering the full gamut of reactions to Russell’s History, the essay investigates whether the numerous criticisms laid against this work may be answered or ameliorated by contextualizing his writing within his own theories regarding the role and scope of the historian. Such an approach, it is argued, is partially successful. While Russell’s writings on the discipline of history shed considerable light upon many of his own idiosyncrasies as a historical writer, there are still several strong criticisms of his work that remain unanswered.","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49585059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting Russell’s Paralysis","authors":"Graham P. Stevens","doi":"10.1353/rss.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rss.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47918036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i2.5046
G. Landini
Abstract:
Principia Mathematica ∗38 introduces what it calls “Relations and Classes Derived from a Double Descriptive Function”. The notion of a relation-e (relation in extension) so derived is called an operation, and of course all dyadic relation-e theorems rely ultimately on the comprehension axiom schema for relations in intension given at ∗ 12.11. But in attempting to give a general pattern of definition, ∗ 38 uses the odd-looking “x♀y” which lends itself to the misconception that ♀ is itself an operation sign. The informal summary makes matters worse, writing “E! (x♀y)” which is ungrammatical. This paper argues that with α, β and μ as relation-e variables and D, E, and P as class variables, operations are comprehended by wffs such as “P = x♀ y”, “μ = α♀β” and “P = R♀S”. Relying on triadic relations-e, I explain how the sign ♀ can be entirely avoided using comprehension. Along the way, puzzling cases such as [inline-graphic 01i] and [inline-graphic 02i] are resolved.
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{"title":"Scholarship on Russell’s Visit to China","authors":"B. Linsky","doi":"10.1353/rss.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rss.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42410396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i2.5049
Bridget Whittle, K. Blackwell
{"title":"Recent Acquisitions, 2020–21","authors":"Bridget Whittle, K. Blackwell","doi":"10.15173/russell.v41i2.5049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v41i2.5049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45408843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i2.5081
Andrew G. Bone, Sheila Turcon
{"title":"Katharine Jane Tait, 1923–2021","authors":"Andrew G. Bone, Sheila Turcon","doi":"10.15173/russell.v41i2.5081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v41i2.5081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44105665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i1.4813
Graham P. Stevens
{"title":"100 Years of Logical Atomism [review of Landon D.C. Elkind and Gregory Landini, eds., The Philosophy of Logical Atomism: a Centenary Reappraisal]","authors":"Graham P. Stevens","doi":"10.15173/russell.v41i1.4813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v41i1.4813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42627415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.15173/russell.v41i1.4811
William A. Bruneau
{"title":"Frank Russell: a Whole from the Parts [review of Ruth Derham, Bertrand's Brother: the Marriages, Morals and Misdemeanours of Frank, 2nd Earl Russell]","authors":"William A. Bruneau","doi":"10.15173/russell.v41i1.4811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15173/russell.v41i1.4811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41601,"journal":{"name":"RUSSELL-THE JOURNAL OF THE BERTRAND RUSSELL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48584168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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