Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language

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Bertrand Russell on Nuclear War, Peace, and Language Critical and Historical Essays

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Alan Schwerin

Under the auspices of the Bertrand Russell Society

Book Code: GM1871

ISBN: 0-313-31871-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31871-9

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176 pages, figures, photo

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2002

List Price: $97.95 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Philosophy

Series Number: 87

Reviews:

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Russell. Professor Schwerin has well served historians, political scientists, philosophers, linguists, logicians, and mathematicians by collecting these essays into one volume, and by providing a seamless flow in the order and presentation.
—The European Legacy 2004

Description: One of the most prominent philosophers and activists of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell is known not only for his fundamental contributions on the scope of human knowledge and on mathematical logic, but also for his often-controversial views on ethical and linguistic topics. This edited collection of original essays by prominent Russell scholars focuses on the philosopher's positions on the key issues of nuclear war, peace, and language. The contributors critically assess Russell's arguments within their historical and philosophical context and show the significance and topicality that his ideas have retained to the present day, some 80 years since their first articulation. Among the issues examined are Russell's advocacy of preventive war against the Soviets, his activism for peace, his critical assessment of Wittgenstein's analysis of ordinary language, and his account of mathematical statements.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction by Alan Schwerin
Bertrand Russell and Preventive War by Ray Perkins
Russell and the Communist-Aligned Peace Movement in the Mid-1950s by Andy Bone
Russell on Happiness by José Idler-Acosta
Reference Revisited by Rom Harré
Russell, Wittgenstein, and Cogito ergo sum by Antony Flew
Our Statements Are Likely to be Wrong: On Russell's Big Thesis by Alan Schwerin
Russell, Logicism, and "If-thenism" by Nicholas Griffin
Index

LC Card Number: 2002075479

LCC Class: B1649

Dewey Class: 192


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