the cambridge companion to
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the in- timidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.
Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth- century philosophy. Through his books, journalism, corre- spondence, and political activity he exerted a profound in- fluence on modern thought. This companion centers on Russell’s contributions to modern philosophy and, therefore, concentrates on the early part of his career. There are chap- ters on Russell’s contributions to the foundations of math- ematics and on his development of new logical methods in philosophy and their application to such fields as epistemol- ogy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. The intel- lectual background to his work is covered, as is his engage- ment with such contemporaries as Frege and G. E. Moore. The final chapter considers Russell as a moral philosopher.
New readers will find this the most convenient and acces- sible guide to Russell available. Advanced students and spe- cialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Russell.
Nicholas Griffin is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Director of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster University.
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