My Philosophical Development (Routledge Classics) 1st Edition by Bertrand Russell (PDF)

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My Philosophical Development is Russell’s intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books. As well as offering some fascinating glimpses into the changing nature of his philosophical beliefs, Russell also reflects on the fundamental themes that governed his thinking in later life.Beginning with an account of his decisive turn against the philosophical idealism that was prevalent in Cambridge at the turn of the century, Russell takes us through his engagement with the foundations of mathematics and the writing, with A.N. Whitehead, of Principia Mathematica. Russell also provides important insights into his theory of knowledge and the mind and conscious experience, before finishing with reflections on his work on language, universals and particulars and his theory of truth. An ideal philosophical companion to Russell’s own Autobiography, My Philosophical Development is testament to one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Nicholas Griffin.

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Editorial Reviews: Review ‘A work of immense fascination and distinction’ – The Observer’Bertrand Russell is not only the most brilliant philosopher of this century; he is also one of the most self-critical. These qualities come out clearly in his philosophical autobiography.’ – A.J.Ayer About the Author Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.

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⭐Bertrand Russell is one of my favorite writers. I’ve really enjoyed his political writings and his History of Western Philosophy. That said, I didn’t understand much of this book. I’m not very familiar with mathematical logic, and this book talks about it a lot. Which makes sense!It was interesting to skim through, but know that if you aren’t that familiar with Russell’s work in mathematics and logic, you probably won’t get much out of this.

⭐This is important for reading Ray Monk’s fundamental ground breaking biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his mirror image Bertrand Russell.

⭐Bertrand Russell was an utmost clinical analyzer of the scriptures of his colleague-philosophers. With his penetrating mathematical insights he could easily translate their often dark and contorted formulations into plain comprehensible sentences and expose the real meaning and/or the inner contradictions of their highbrow wordings.In this book, he exposes harshly the morass of linguistics and Wittgenstein’s `Philosophical Investigations’, demolishes William James, tells how he destroyed unintentionally Frege’s life work and gives insightful comments on Tarski, Ryle and his own struggle with induction.Astonishingly, the main influence on his life as a philosopher was not a philosophic problem, but World War I: `One effect of that war was to make it impossible for me to go on living in a world of abstraction.’ It turned him away from pure mathematics.Morass of linguisticsBertrand Russell had no `sympathy with those who treat language as an autonomous province.’ For him, `the essential thing about language is that it has meaning, that it is related to something non-linguistic.’As Karl Popper said, linguistics is nothing more than cleaning one’s spectacles.Wittgenstein Bertrand Russell was extremely harsh for Wittgenstein’s second philosophical period (the `Philosophical Investigations’), where `we are now told that it is not the world that we are to try to understand but only sentences’, nor the separation of `what may count as knowledge from what must be rejected as unfounded opinion.’`The positive doctrines seem to me trivial and its negative doctrines unfounded.’William JamesB. Russell explains that for William James, `a belief is rendered true by the excellence of its effects’. More, William James `says that what he means is not that the consequences of the belief are good, but that the believer thinks they will be.’!Ryle, TarskiB. Russell doesn’t agree with Ryle (`philosophy cannot be fruitful if divorced from empirical science’), but he agrees with Tarski `that truth consists in one sort of relation to facts, while falsehood consists in another sort of relation.’In his characteristic sarcastic and vitriolic style, Bertrand Russell torpedoes in this book big chunks of modern `philosophy’. It is a must read for all those interested in philosophy and the way of the world.

⭐Excellent textbook written by a master in the field. I have learnt so much from it.

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