<P><i>The Scientific Outlook</i> provides accessible and illuminating insights into Russell's thinking about the promise and threat of scientific progress. He offers brilliant discussions of many of the major figures in the history of science, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin and cons ...
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<P>This volume signals reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner. The title of the volume is taken from one of his most famous and eloquent short essays and probably the best known of his many broadcasts for the BBC. <i>Man's Peril 1954-55</i> not only captures the essence of Russell's thinkin ...
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<P>This volume covers the period from the beginning of Russell's work on Volume Two of the <i>Principles of Mathematics</i> to the critical discovery of the theory of descriptions in 1905. <b></b><b><i>Foundations of Logic</i></b> gives a vivid picture of Russell wrestling with the logical paradoxes ...
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<P>During the period covered by this volume, Bertrand Russell first retired from and them resumed his philosophical career. In 1927 he published two philosophy books, The Analysis of Matter and An Outline of Philosophy. His next book in academic philosophy, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, was not ...
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