BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE ORIGINS OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY Edited and introduced by Ray Monk and Anthony Palmer Universty of Southampton = Printed in Eola by tony Rowe ‘THOEMMES PRESSFirst published in 1996 by Thoemmes Press 11 Great George Sueet, Bro! BST SRR United Kingdom ISBN 1 85506 476 6 tr’ rodction and amangenet Indra says © especie abo, 196 ‘acid’ om depicing Rael rang rath foe 2 wal ‘eprdee with kind pemison fom | “The National Caley, London British Library Cataloguing Publication Dats Acatloge record ofthis ile avalable rom the Beis Libary Allsighs rsrved. No pst of his publication may Berepoduced, sored in areal sytem, of teamed in any way ox by any means, leon, mechanical, photocopying, recording o cherie, without he ween prison of he copyright hole CONTENTS Introduction 1. Whats Anaya! Philoophy? Ray Monk .. : 2, Denoting Concepts in The Principles of Mathematics Nicholas Griffin... 3. The ‘Gray Eley’ Argument ~and Others Harold Noonan ....... sede Symposium: 4. The Unity of the Proposition and Russell's Theories of Judgement Stewart Candlish a 5. How Can We Say Something? Mark Sainsbury... a 6. The Complex Problem and the Theory of Symbolism Anthony Palmer 7. Beginning with Analysis Peter Hylton .. 23 65 103 “137 - 155 - 183vi Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy 8. Russells Perilous Journey from Atomism to Holism 1919-1951 Francisco A. Rodriguez-Consuegra ......... 247 9. Russell's Transcendental Argument in An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry A.C. Grayling ‘ 24s 10. A Certain Knowledge? Russells Mathematics and Logical Analysis COM. Kilmister 6... ccc. cece eee 269 11. Will the Real Principia Mathematica Please Stand Up? Reflections on the Formal Logic of the Principia Gregory Landini . - 287 12, Bertrand Ruseell: A Neglected Ethicist Charles Pigden . 331 13. The History of Western Philosophy ~ Fifty Years Later Louis Greenspan ...2.cceceeveceveeee 363 INTRODUCTION Analytic philosophers in the mid twentieth century, asked to characterize their intellectual origins, would very soon have found themselves talking about Russell and Moore. In the last quarter of the century things have changed, Now there are even some, like Michael Dummett, who would claim that neither Russell nor ‘Moore was even a source of analytic philosophy let alone singly ot jointly the source. This revisionist thesis can find litle to support it in the way of historical ‘evidence and must rely upon what Dummett enigmati- cally refers to as ‘causal influences which appear to ‘operate in the realm of ideas independently of who reads what or hears what’. Russell seems to be in danger of becoming relegated to the sidelines of the twentieth century's major philosophical development not by the unearthing of hitherto undiscovered evidence bur by the invocation of that most unreliable of witnesses, a zeitgeist. This volume of papers by Russell scholars from around the world, given at a conference at Southampton University in July 1995 should go some ‘way towards restoring Russeli’ role in the development of analytical philosophy. (One reason, pethaps the main one, for the attempt to place Russell at the periphery of the development of analytic philosophy is a revaluation of the role Frege played in its development. Ray Monk in his contri- bution points out that Dummett precisely dates the beginning of analytic philosophy to a specific moment