Reading Bertrand Russell

[The Mysticism and Logic Halftime report, on Chapters I through VI, is here ; what follows in this post, the Full Time review, focuses on ...

“Knowledge By Acquaintance and Knowledge By Description,” pages 209-232 What if we know some general fact – the candidate with the most vo...

"On the Notion of Cause," pages 180-208 [Posted on the fiftieth anniversary of Bertrand Russell's death , February 2, 2020.]...

“The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics,” pages 164-179 Recall that this second post covering Chapter VIII is devoted to the following se...

Chapter VIIIa, “The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics,” pages 145-164 Russell breaks down Chapter VIII into twelve sections; the chapter ...

“The Ultimate Constituents of Matter,” pages 125-144 The question “what is matter?” contains an insoluble part and a soluble part, and fu...

Time to take a halftime break in Mysticism and Logic . What have we learned in the first half? Both intuition and logic are part of the h...