I.
BOOKS
and COLLECTIONS by BERTRAND RUSSELL
I.1. German
Social Democracy
(1896)
i. London BR.
ii. London
iii. Contents:
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details, see here.
· I.
Marx and the Theoretic Basis of Social Democracy
· II. Lassalle
· III. History of German
Socialism from the Death of Lassalle to the Passing of the Exceptional Law,
1878
· IV. Social Democracy under
the Exceptional Law, 1878-1890
· V. Organisation, Agitation,
Tactics, and Programme of Social Democracy since the Fall of the Socialist Law
· VI. The Present Position
of Social Democracy
I.2. An
Essay on the Foundations of Geometry (1897)
i. Cambridge : Cambridge University
ii. Dover
iii. Contents:
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· Introduction.
Problem
Defined by its Relation to Logic, Psychology and Mathematics
· Chapter I. A Short History
of Metageometry.
· Chapter II. Critical
Account of Some Previous Philosophical Theories of Geometry.
· Chapter III.
a.
Section A. The Axioms of Projecting Geometry.
b.
Section B. The Axioms of Metrical Geometry.
i.
The Axiom of Free Mobility
ii.
The Axiom of Dimensions
iii.
The Axiom of Distance
· Chapter
IV. Philosophical Consequences
I.3. A
Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz (1900)
i. Cambridge : Cambridge University
ii. London BR.
iii. Contents:
· 1.
Reasons why Leibniz never wrote a magnum
opus
· 2.
Functions of the commentator on Leibniz
· 3.
Two types of inconsistency in his philosophy
· 4.
His premisses
· 5.
Course of the present work
· 6.
Influences which formed Leibniz's opinions
Chapter II. Necessary Propositions and the Law of Contradictions
· 7.
Leibniz's philosophy begins with an analysis of propositions
· 8.
Outline of Leibniz's logical argument
· 9.
Questions raised by this argument
· 10.
Are all propositions reducible to the subject-predicate form?
· 11.
Analytic and synthetic propositions
· 12.
Necessity and contingency
Chapter III. Contingent Propositions
and the Law of Sufficient Reason
· 13.
The range of contingent judgments in Leibniz
· 14.
Meaning of the principle of sufficient reason
· 15.
Its relation to the law of contradiction
Chapter IV. The Conception of Substance
· 16.
Cartesian and Spinozistic views on substance
· 17.
The meaning of substance in Leibniz
· 18.
The meaning of activity
· 19.
Connection between activity and sufficient reason
· 20.
The states of one substance form one causal series
· 21.
How does a substance differ from the sum of its predicates?
· 22.
Relation of time to Leibniz's notion of substance
Chapter V. The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Law of Continuity. Possibility
and Compossibility
· 23.
Meaning of the Identity of Indiscernibles
· 24.
The principle necessary, but not a premiss of Leibniz's philosophy
· 25.
Is Leibniz's proof of the principle valid?
· 26.
Every substance has an infinite number of predicates. Connection of this with
contingency and with the identity of indiscernibles
· 27.
The Law of Continuity : three forms of continuity maintained by Leibniz
· 28.
Grounds of the Law of Continuity
· 29.
Possibility and compossibility
· 30.
Common properties of all possible worlds
· 31.
The three kinds of necessity
Chapter VI. Why did Leibniz Believe in an External World?
· 32.
Leibniz accepted matter as a datum
· 33.
The existence of the external world has only "moral certainty"
Chapter VII. The Philosophy of Matter:
(a) as the Outcome of the Principles of Dynamics
· 34.
The general trustworthiness of perception is a premiss of Leibniz's philosophy
· 35.
Various meanings of matter and body
· 36.
Relation of Leibnizian and Cartesian Dynamics
· 37.
The essence of matter is not extension .
· 38.
Meaning of materia prima in Leibniz's
Dynamics
· 39.
Materia secunda
· 40.
The conception of force and the law of inertia
· 41.
Force and absolute motion
· 42.
Metaphysical grounds for assuming force
· 4.3.
Dynamical argument for plurality of causal series
· 44.
Three types of dynamical theory confused by Leibniz
· 45.
His grounds against extended atoms
· 46.
Against the vacuum
· 47.
And against action at a distance
· 48.
Force as conferring individuality
· 49.
Primitive and derivative force
· 50.
Antinomy of dynamical causation
Chapter VIII. The Philosophy of Matter (continued), (b) as Explaining
Continuity and Extension
· 51.
There must be simple substances, since there are compounds
· 52.
Extension, as distinguished from space, is Leibniz's starting point
· 53.
Extension means repetition
· 54.
Hence the essence of a substance cannot be extension, since a substance must be
a true unity
· 55.
The three kinds of point. Substances not material
· 56.
Motion is phenomenal, though force is real
Chapter IX. The Labyrinth of the Continuum
· 57.
Difficulties about points
· 58.
Assertion of the actual infinite and denial of infinite number
· 59.
Continuity in one sense denied by Leibniz
· 60.
In number, space, and time, the whole is prior to the part
· 61.
Space and time, for Leibniz, purely relational
· 62.
Summary of the argument from the continuum to monads
· 63.
Since aggregates are phenomenal, there is not really a number of monads
· 64.
Difficulties of this view
Chapter X. The Theory of Space and Time and its Relation to
Monadism
· 65.
Reasons why a philosophy of substance must deny the reality of space
· 66.
Leibniz's arguments against the reality of space
· 67.
Leibniz's theory of position
· 68.
The relation of monads to space a fundamental difficulty of monadism
· 69.
Leibniz's early views on this subject
· 70.
His middle views
· 71.
His later views
· 72.
Time and change
· 73.
Monadisms take an unsymmetrical view of the relations of space and of time to
things
· 74.
Leibniz held confusedly to an objective counterpart of space and time
Chapter XI. The Nature of Monads in General
· 75.
Perception
· 76.
Appetition
· 77.
Perception not due to action of the perceived on the percipient
· 78.
Lotze's criticism of this view
· 79.
The pre-established harmony
Chapter XII. Soul and Body
· 80.
Relations of monads to be henceforth considered
· 81.
Cartesian and Spinozistic views of the relations of Soul and Body
· 82.
Outline of Leibniz's view
· 83.
The three classes of monads
· 84.
Activity and passivity
· 85.
Perfection and clearness of perception
· 86.
Materia prima as an element in each monad
· 87.
Materia prima the source of finitude,
plurality, and matter
· 88.
And of the interconnection of monads
· 89.
Two theories of soul and body in Leibniz
· 90.
First theory
· 91.
Second theory
· 92.
The vinculum substantiale
· 93.
The second theory to be rejected
· 94.
Preformation
Chapter XIII. Confused and Unconscious
Perception
· 95.
Two kinds of differences between monads
· 96.
Unconscious mental states
· 97.
Confused and minute perceptions
Chapter XIV. Leibniz's Theory of Knowledge
· 98.
What theory of knowledge means
· 99.
Innate ideas and truths
· 100.
The New Essays inconsistent with Leibniz's metaphysics
· 101.
Difficulties as to innate ideas
· 102.
Distinction of sense and intellect
· 103.
The quality of ideas
· 104.
Definition
· 105.
The Characteristica Universalis
Chapter XV. Proofs of the Existence of God
· 106.
Four proofs allowed by Leibniz
· 107.
The ontological argument
· 108.
Proof that the idea of God is possible
· 109.
The cosmological argument 175
· 110.
Objections to this argument 176
· 111.
The argument from the eternal truths
· 112.
Its weakness
· 113.
Relation of knowledge to truth
· 114.
Argument from the pre-established harmony
· 115.
Objections to this argument
· 116.
Inconsistencies resulting from Leibniz's belief in God
· 117.
God's goodness
Chapter XVI. Leibniz’s Ethics
· 118.
Freedom and determinism
· 119.
Psychology of volition and pleasure
· 120.
Sin
· 121.
Meaning of good and evil: three kinds of each
· 122.
Metaphysical evil the source of the other two kinds
· 123.
Connection with the doctrine of analytic judgments
· 124.
The kingdoms of nature and of grace
I.4. The
Principles of Mathematics
(1903)
i. Cambridge : Cambridge University London
ii. London BR.
iii. Contents:
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Part I. The Indefinables of
Mathematics
· 1. Definition of Pure
Mathematics
· 2.
Symbolic Logic [III.4., excerpt]
a. The Propositional Calculus
b. The Calculus of Classes
c. The Calculus of Relations
d. Peano’s Symbolic Logic
· 3.
Implication
and Formal Implication
· 4.
Proper Names,
Adjectives and Verbs
· 5. Denoting
· 6. Classes
· 7. Propositional Functions
· 8. Variables
· 9. Relations
· 10. The Contradiction
Part II.
Number
· 11. Definition of Cardinal
Numbers
· 12.
Addition and Multiplication
· 13. Finite and Infinite
· 14. Theory of Finite
Numbers
· 15. Addition of Terms and
Addition of Classes
· 16. Whole and Part
· 17. Infinite Wholes
· 18. Ratios and Fractions
Part III.
Quantity
· 19. The Meaning of
Magnitude
· 20. The Range of Quantity
· 21. Numbers as Expressing
Magnitude: Measurement
· 22. Zero
· 23. Infinity, the
Infinitesimal, and Continuity
Part IV.
Order
· 24.
The Genesis
of Series
· 25. The Meaning of Order
· 26. Asymmetrical Relations
· 27. Difference of Sense
and Difference of Sign
· 28. On the Difference
between Open and Closed Series
· 29. Progressions and
Ordinal Numbers
· 30. Dedekind’s Theory of
Number
· 31. Distance
Part V.
Infinity and Continuity
· 32. The Correlation of
Series
· 33. Real Numbers
· 34. Limits and Irrational
Numbers
· 35. Cantor’s First
Definition of Continuity
· 36. Ordinal Continuity
· 37. Transfinite Cardinals
· 38. Transfinite Ordinals
· 39. The Infinitesimal
Calculus
· 40. The Infinitesimal and
the Improper Infinite
· 41. Philosophical
Arguments Concerning the Infinitesimal
· 42. The Philosophy of the
Continuum
· 43. The Philosophy of the Infinite
Part VI.
Space
· 44.
Dimensions and Complex Numbers
· 45.
Projective
Geometry
· 46. Descriptive Geometry
· 47. Metrical Geometry
· 48. Relation of Metrical
to Projective and Descriptive Geometry
· 49. Definition of Various
Spaces
· 50. The Continuity of
Space
· 51. Logical Arguments
against Points
· 52. Kant’s Theory of Space
Part VII.
Matter and Motion
· 53.
Matter
· 54. Motion
· 55. Causality
· 56. Definition of a
Dynamical World
· 57. Newton
· 58. Absolute and Relative
Motion
· 59. Hertz’s Dynamics
· Appendix A: The Logical
and Arithmetical Doctrines of Frege
· Appendix B: The Doctrine
of Types
I.5. Philosophical
Essays (1910)
i. London
ii. London BR.
iii. Routledge
Classics, 2009. Rev. ed. (1966). Two prefaces by BR (1910, 1966).
iv. Contents:
· The
Elements of Ethics [1908, II.14.]
· The Free Man’s Worship [not in the rev. ed.; 1903, II.3.]
· The Study of Mathematics [not in the rev. ed.; 1907, II.11.]
· On
History [only in the rev. ed.; 1904,
II.4.]
· Science
and Hypothesis (A Review) [only in
the rev. ed.; 1905, II.5.]
· Pragmatism
[1909, II.18.]
· Williams
James's Conception of Truth [1908, II.14.]
· The
Monistic Theory of Truth [1907, II.12.]
· On
the Nature of Truth and Falsehood [1909, II.17.]
I.6. Principia
Mathematica
(1910-13), 3 vols.
i. Cambridge : Cambridge
ii. Cambridge University
iii. Contents:
Volume I
· Introduction
· Part I.
A. The
Theory of Deduction
B. Theory of Apparent
Variables
C. Classes and Relations
D. Logic and Relations
E. Products and Sums of
Classes
· Part II. Prolegomena to Cardinal Arithmetic
A. Unit Classes and Couples
B. Sub-Classes,
Sub-Relations, and Relative Types
C. One-Many, Many-One, and
One-One Relations
D. Selections
E. Inductive Relations
· Appendix A: The Theory of
Deduction for Propositions containing Apparent Variables
· Appendix B: Mathematical Induction
· Appendix C: Truth-Functions and others
Volume II
· Part III.
Cardinal Arithmetic
A. Definition and Logical
Properties of Cardinal Numbers
B. Addition, Multiplication
and Exponentiation
C. Finite and Infinite
· Part IV. Relation-Arithmetic
A. Ordinal Similarity and
Relation-Numbers
B. Addition of Relations, and
the product of two relations
C. The Principle of First
Differences, and the multiplication and exponentiation of relations
D. Arithmetic
of Relation-Numbers
· Part V. Series
A. General Theory of Series
B. On Sections, Segments,
Stretches, and Derivatives
C. On Convergence, and the
Limits of Functions
Volume III
· Part V. Series (continued)
D. Well-ordered Series
E. Finite and Infinite Series
and Ordinals
F. Compact Series, Rational
Series, and Continuous Series
· Part VI. Quantity
A. Generalization of Number
B. Vector-Families
C. Measurement
D. Cyclic Families
I.7. The
Problems of Philosophy (1912)
i. London BR.
ii. London : Oxford University
iii. New York
iv. Dover
v. Contents:
· I. Appearance
and Reality
· II.
The Existence
of Matter
· III. The Nature of Matter
· IV. Idealism
· V. Knowledge by
Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description [III.4.]
· VI. On Induction [III.4.]
· VII. On Our Knowledge of
General Principles
· VIII. How A Priori Knowledge is Possible
· IX.
The World of Universals
· X.
On Our Knowledge of Universals
· XI. On Intuitive Knowledge
· XII.
Truth and Falsehood
· XIII.
Knowledge,
Error, and Probable Opinion
· XIV. The Limits of
Philosophical Knowledge
· XV. The Value of
Philosophy
I.8. Our
Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy (1914)
i. Chicago Open Court Cambridge Lowell Lectures in Boston
ii. London
iii. Routledge,
1993.
Original 1914 text. Introduction by John G. Slater, 1993. 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005.
iv. Routledge Classics, 2009.
Original 1914 text. Introduction by John G. Slater, 1993.
v. Contents:
· I.
Current Tendencies [ III.1.; see also II.26.]
· II.
Logic as the Essence of Philosophy
· III. On our Knowledge of
the External World
· IV. The World of Physics
and the World of Sense
· V. The Theory of
Continuity
· VI. The Problem of
Infinity Considered Historically
· VII. The Positive Theory
of Infinity
· VIII. On the Notion of
Cause, with Applications to the Free-Will problem
I.9. Justice
in War-Time
(1915)
i. London BR.
ii. Chicago Open Court
iii. Contents:
· An Appeal to the
Intellectuals of Europe [1915]
· The Ethics of War [January,
1915, Int. J of Ethics, vol. XXV, No.
2.]
· War and Non-Resistance
[1915]
· Why Nations Love War
[1914]
· The Future of Anglo-German
Rivalry [1915]
· Is a Permanent Peace
Possible? [1915]
· The Danger of Civilization
[rev. ed. only; 1916]
· The Entente Policy,
1904-1915. A Reply to Professor Gilbert Murray [1915]
i. Introduction
ii. Morrocco
iii. The Anglo-Russian Entente
iv. What Our Policy Ought to
Have Been
· Appendix A
· Appendix B
I.10. Principles
of Social Reconstruction
(1916)
i. London Westminster
ii. New York
iii. Routledge
Classics, 2010, as Why Men Fight.
Introduction by Richard A. Rempel.
iv. Contents:
· I. The Principle of Growth
· II. The State [III.1.]
· III. War as an Institution
· IV. Property [III.4.]
· V. Education [III.1. &
III.4.]
· VI. Marriage and the
Population Question [III.12.]
· VII. Religion and the
Churches [II.31.]
· VIII. What We Can Do
I.11. Political
Ideals (1917)
i. New York
ii. Simon
& Schuster, 1964. Foreword by BR, 1963.
iii. Contents
( IV.14.):
· I.
Political Ideals [1916]
· II.
Capitalism
and the Wage System [1917]
· III. Pitfalls in Socialism
[1917]
· IV.
Individual Liberty
· V. National Independence
I.12. Mysticism and Logic and
Other Essays (1917)
i. London
ii. London London
iii. New York
iv. Routledge, 1994. Two
prefaces by BR (1917, 1929). Introduction by John G. Slater, 1994.
v. Contents:
· A
Free Man's Worship [1903, II.3.]
· Mysticism
and Logic [1914,
II.26.]
· The
Place of Science in a Liberal Education [1913, II.25.]
· The
Study of Mathematics [1907, II.11.]
· Mathematics
and the Metaphysicians
· On
Scientific Method in Philosophy [1914, II.27.]
· The
Ultimate Constituents of Matter [1915, II.30.]
· The
Relation to Sense-data to Physics [1914, II.28.]
· On
the Notion of Cause [1912, II.24.]
· Knowledge
by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description [1911, II.20.]
I.13. Roads
to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism (1918)
i. London
ii. George Allen & Unwin,
July 1919. 2nd rev. ed. New preface by BR, “London
iii. New York
iv. George Allen & Unwin,
January 1920. 3rd ed.
v. George Allen and Unwin,
1949. 3rd ed. 9th impr. Preface [to the 2nd
ed.] by BR, “January 1919”. Preface to Third Edition by BR, “June 1948”.
vi. Routledge, 1993. Preface
[to the 2nd ed.] by BR signed “January 1919”. Preface to Third
Edition by BR, “June 1948”.
vii. Contents:
· Introduction
PART I: Historical
· I. Marx and the Socialist
Doctrine
· II. Bakunin and Anarchism
· III. The Syndicalist
Revolt
PART II: Problems of the Future
· IV. Work and Pay
· V. Government and Law
· VI. International
Relations
· VII. Science and Art Under
Socialism [III.1.]
· VIII. The World as it
Could be Made [III.1.]
I.14. Introduction
to Mathematical Philosophy
(1919)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. London
iv. Contents:
· 1. The Series of Natural
Numbers
· 2. Definition of Number [III.1.]
· 3. Finitude and
Mathematical Induction
· 4. The Definition of Order
· 5. Kinds of Relations
· 6. Similarity of Relations
· 7. Rational, Real, and
Complex Numbers
· 8. Infinite Cardinal
Numbers
· 9. Infinite Series and
Ordinals
· 10. Limits and Continuity
· 11. Limits and Continuity
of Functions
· 12. Selections and the
Multiplicative Axiom
· 13. The Axiom of Infinity
and Logical Types
· 14. Incompatibility and
the Theory of Deduction
· 15. Propositional
Functions
· 16. Descriptions
· 17. Classes
· 18. Mathematics and Logic
I.15. The
Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)
i. London
ii. Contents:
Part I. The Present Condition in Russia
· I. What is Hoped from
Bolshevism
· II. General
Characteristics
· III. Lenin, Trotsky and
Gorky
· IV. Art and Education
· V. Communism and the
Soviet Constitution
· VI. The Failure of Russian
Industry
· VII. Daily Life in Moscow
· VIII. Town
· IX. International Policy
Part II.
Bolshevik Theory
· I. The Materialistic
Theory of History [III.4.]
· II. Deciding Forces in
Politics [III.1.]
· III. Bolshevik Criticism
of Democracy
· IV. Revolution and
Dictatorship
· V. Mechanism and the
Individual
· VI. Why Russian Communism
Has Failed
· VII. Conditions for the
Success of Communism
I.16. The
Analysis of Mind
(1921)
i. London Peking ,
January 1921”.
ii. New York
iii. Routledge, 2002. Introduction
by Thomas Baldwin, 1995.
iv. Contents:
· I. Recent Criticisms of
“Consciousness”
· II.
Instinct and
Habit
· III. Desire and Feeling
· IV. Influences of Past
History on Present Occurrences in Living Organisms
· V. Psychological and
Physical Causal Laws [III.4.]
· VI. Introspection
· VII. The Definition of Perception
· VIII. Sensation and Images
· IX. Memory
· X. Words and Meaning [III.1.]
· XI. General Ideas and
Thought
· XII. Belief
· XIII. Truth and Falsehood
[III.4.]
· XIV. Emotions and Will
· XV. Characteristics of
Mental Phenomena
I.17. The
Problem of China
i. London
ii. New York
iii. George Allen & Unwin,
1966. 3rd impr. Foreword by BR signed “9 November, 1965”.
iv. Contents:
· I. Questions [ III.1.]
· II. China before the
Nineteenth Century
· III. China and the Western
Powers
· IV. Modern China
· V. Japan before the
Restoration
· VI. Modern Japan
· VII. Japan and China
· VIII. Japan and China
· IX. The Washington
· X. Present Forces and
Tendencies in the Far East
· XI. Chinese and Western
Civilization Contrasted [III.1.]
· XII. The Chinese Character
[III.1.]
· XIII. Higher Education in China
· XIV. Industrialism in China
· XV. The Outlook for China
· Appendix
I.18. The
ABC of Atoms
(1923)
i. London
ii. Contents:
· I. Introductory
· II. The Periodic Law
· III. Electrons and Nuclei
· IV. The Hydrogen Spectrum
· V. Possible States of the
Hydrogen Atom
· VI. The Theory of Quanta
· VII. Refinements of the
Hydrogen Spectrum
· VIII. Rings of Electrons
· IX. X-Rays
· X. Radio-Activity
· XI. The Structure of
Nuclei
· XII.
The New Physics and the Wave-Theory of Light
· XIII.
The New Physics and Relativity [III.4.]
· Appendix:
Bohr’s Theory of the Hydrogen Spectrum
I.19. The
Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923), with Dora Russell
i. London
ii. London
iii. Routledge
Classics, 2010. Preface to the Second edition by Dora Russell, 1959. Preface to
the First edition by Dora and Bertrand Russell, “May 10, 1923”. Introduction by
Louis Greenspan, 1996.
iv. Contents:
Part I
· Causes of the Present
Chaos [III.1.]
· Inherent Tendencies of
Industrialism [III.12.]
· Industrialism and Private
Property
· Interactions of
Industrialism and Nationalism
· The Transition to
Internationalism
· Socialism in Undeveloped
Countries
· Socialism in Advanced
Countries
Part II
· What Makes a Social System
Good or Bad? [1922, II.35.]
· Moral Standards and Social
Well-Being [III.1. & III.10.]
· The Sources of Power
· The Distribution of Power
· Education
· Economic Organization and
Mental Freedom
· Notes
I.20. The
ABC of Relativity (1925)
i. London
ii. Routledge
Classics, 2009. Edited (1985) and with a Preface (2002) by Felix Pirani. Introduction by
Peter Clark, 1997.
iii. Contents:
· 1.
Touch and Sight: The Earth and the Heavens [III.1.]
· 2.
What Happens and What is Observed
· 3.
The Velocity of Light
· 4.
Clocks and Foot-rules
· 5.
Space-Time
· 6.
The Special Theory of Relativity
· 7.
Intervals in Space-Time
· 8.
Einstein's Law of Gravitation
· 9.
Proofs of Einstein's Law of Gravitation
· 10.
Mass, Momentum, Energy, and Action
· 11.
The Expanding Universe
· 12.
Conventions and Natural Laws
· 13.
The Abolition of 'Force'
· 14.
What is Matter?
· 15.
Philosophical Consequences
I.21. On
Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. New York
iv. Routledge Classics, 2010,
as On Education.
v. Contents:
PART I: Educational Ideas
· 1. Postulates of Modern
Educational Theory
· 2. The Aims of Education
[III.1. & III.3.]
PART II: Education of Character
· 3. The First Year
· 4. Fear
· 5. Play and Fancy
· 6. Constructiveness
· 7. Selfishness and
Property
· 8. Truthfulness
· 9. Punishment
· 10. Importance of Other
Children
· 11. Affection and Sympathy
· 12. Sex Education
· 13. The Nursery School
PART III: Intellectual Education
· 14. General Principles
· 15. The School Curriculum
Before Fourteen
· 16. Last School
· 17. Day Schools
· 18. The University
· 19. Conclusion
I.22. The
Analysis of Matter (1927)
i. London
ii. London
iii. New York : Dover
iv. Routledge, 1992. 1st
pb ed. Introduction by John G. Slater, 1992. Reprinted, 2001.
v. Spokesman, 2007.
vi. Contents:
· I.
The Nature of the Problem
Part I. The Logical Analysis of Physics
· II. Pre-Relativity Physics
· III.
Electrons and Protons
· IV.
The Theory of Quanta
· V.
The Special Theory of Relativity
· V.
The General Theory of Relativity
· VII.
The Method of Tensors
· VIII.
Geodesics
· IX.
Invariants and Their Physical Interpretation
· X.
Weyl's Theory
· XI.
The Principle of Differential Laws
· XII.
Measurement
· XIII.
Matter and Space
· XIV.
The Abstractness of Physics
Part II. Physics and Perception
· XV. From Primitive
Perception to Common Sense
· XVI.
From Common Sense to Physics
· XVII.
What is an Empirical Science?
· XVIII.
Our Knowledge of Particular Matters of Fact
· XIX.
Data, Inferences, Hypotheses, and Theories
· XX.
The Causal Theory of Perception
· XXI.
Perception and Objectivity
· XXII.
The Belief in General Laws
· XXIII.
Substance
· XXIV.
Importance of Structure in Scientific Inference
· XXV.
Perception from the Standpoint of Physics
· XXVI.
Non-Mental Analogues to Perception
Part III. The Structure of the Physical World
· XXVII.
Particulars
and Events
· XXVIII.
The Construction of Points
· XXIX.
Space-Time Order
· XXX.
Causal Lines
· XXXI.
Extrinsic Causal Laws
· XXXII.
Physical and Perceptual Space-Time
· XXXIII.
Periodicity and Qualitative Series
· XXXIV.
Types of Physical Occurrences
· XXXV.
Causality and Interval
· XXXVI.
The Genesis of Space-Time
· XXXVII.
Physics and Neutral Monism [III.4.]
· XXXVIII.
Summary and Conclusion
I.23. An
Outline of Philosophy (1927)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. Routledge
Classics, 2009.
Introduction by John G. Slater, 1995.
iv. Contents:
· 1. Philosophic Doubts
PART I: Man
from Without
· 2. Man and his Environment
· 3. The Process of Learning
in Animals and Infants
· 4. Language [III.4.]
· 5. Perception Objectively
Regarded
· 6. Memory Objectively
Regarded
· 7. Inference as a Habit
· 8. Knowledge
Behaviouristically Considered [III.4.]
PART II: The Physical World
· 9. The Structure of the
Atom
· 10. Relativity
· 11. Causal Laws in Physics
· 12. Physics and Perception
· 13. Physical and
Perceptual Space
· 14. Perception and
Physical Causal Laws
· 15. The Nature of our
Knowledge of Physics
PART III: The Man from Within
· 16. Self-observation
· 17. Images
· 18. Imagination and Memory
· 19. The Introspective
Analysis of Perception
· 20. Consciousness?
· 21. Emotion, Desire, and
Will
· 22. Ethics
PART IV: The Universe
· 23. Some Great
Philosophies of the Past
· 24. Truth and Falsehood
· 25. The Validity of
Inference [III.4.]
· 26. Events, Matter, and
Mind
· 27. Man’s Place in the
Universe
I.24. Sceptical Essays (1928)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. Contents:
· Introduction:
On the Value of Scepticism [1928, II.47.]
· Dreams
and Facts [1919, IV.19.]
· Is
Science Superstitious? [1926, II.54.]
· Can
Men be Rational? [1923, II.36.]
· Philosophy
in the Twentieth Century [1924, III.4. & IV.9.]
· Machines
and the Emotions [1924]
· Behaviourism
and Values [1926, IV.9.]
· Eastern
and Western Ideals of Happiness [1924, II.40.]
· The
Harm that Good Men Do [1926]
· The
Recrudescence of Puritanism [1923]
· The
Need for Political Scepticism [1924, IV.16.]
· Free
Thought and Official Propaganda [1926, II.34.]
· Freedom
in Society [1926, IV.17.]
· Freedom
Versus Authority in Education [1924, IV.16.]
· Psychology
and Politics [1924, IV.9. or 1926, IV.16.?]
· The
Danger of Creed Wars [1924, IV.17.]
· Some
Prospects: Cheerful and Otherwise
I.25. Marriage
and Morals
(1929)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. Routledge Classics, 2009.
iv. Contents:
· 1.
Introduction (US: Why a Sexual Ethic is Necessary) [III.10.]
· 2.
Matrilineal Societies (US: Where Fatherhood is Unknown)
· 3.
Patriarchal Systems (US: The Dominion of the Father)
· 4.
Phallic Worship, Asceticism and Sin
· 5.
Christian Ethics
· 6.
Romantic Love
· 7.
The Liberation of Women
· 8.
The Taboo on Sex Knowledge
· 9.
The Place of Love in Human Life
· 10.
Marriage
· 11.
Prostitution
· 12.
Trial Marriage
· 13.
The Family at the Present Day
· 14.
The Family in Individual Psychology
· 15.
The Family and the State
· 16.
Divorce
· 17.
Population
· 18.
Eugenics
· 19.
Sex and Individual Well-Being
· 20.
The Place of Sex among Human Values [III.4. & III.10.]
· 21.
Conclusion [III.10., as “Marriage and Morals”]
I.26. The
Conquest of Happiness
(1930)
i. London BR.
ii. Routledge Classics, 2006.
Preface by A. C. Grayling.
iii. Contents:
I. Causes of Unhappiness
· 1.
What Makes People Unhappy? [III.12.]
· 2.
Byronic Unhappiness
· 3.
Competition
· 4.
Boredom and Excitement
· 5.
Fatigue
· 6.
Envy
· 7.
The Sense of Sin [III.12.]
· 8.
Persecution Mania
· 9.
Fear of Public Opinion
II. Causes of Happiness
· 10.
Is Happiness Still Possible?
· 11.
Zest
· 12.
Affection
· 13.
The Family
· 14.
Work
· 15.
Impersonal Interests
· 16.
Effort and Resignation
· 17.
The Happy Man
I.27. The
Scientific Outlook
(1931)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. Contents:
· Introduction
· 01.
Examples of Scientific Method
· 02.
Characteristics of Scientific Method
· 03.
Limitations of Scientific Method [III.4.]
· 04.
Scientific Metaphysics
· 05.
Science and Religion [III.9.]
· 06.
Beginnings of Scientific Technique
· 07.
Technique in Inanimate Nature
· 08.
Technique in Biology
· 09.
Technique in Physiology
· 10.
Technique in Psychology
· 11.
Technique in Society
· 12.
Artificially Created Societies
· 13.
The Individual and the Whole
· 14.
Scientific Government
· 15.
Education in a Scientific Society
· 16.
Scientific Reproduction
· 17.
Science and Values
I.28. Education
and the Social Order
(1932)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. Routledge Classics, 2010.
iv. Contents:
· 01. The Individual versus
the Citizen
· 02. The Negative Theory of
Education
· 03. Education and Heredity
· 04. Emotion and Discipline
· 05. Home versus School
· 06. Aristocrats, Democrats
and Bureaucrats
· 07.
The Herd in
Education
· 08. Religion in Education
· 09. Sex in Education
· 10. Patriotism in
Education
· 11. Class-feeling in
Education
· 12. Competition in
Education
· 13. Education under
Communism
· 14. Education and
Economics
· 15. Propaganda in
Education
· 16. The Reconciliation of
Individuality and Citizenship [III.4.]
I.29. Freedom
and Organization: 1814-1914
(1934)
i. London
ii. New York
iii. London
iv. Routledge
Classics, 2010.
v. Contents:
PART I: The
Principle of Legitimacy
· 1. Napoleon’s Successors
· 2. The Congress of Vienna
· 3. The Holy Alliance
· 4. The Twilight of
Metternich
PART II: The March of Mind
Section A: The Social Background
· 5. The Aristocracy
· 6. Country Life
· 7. Industrial Life
Section B: The Philosophical Radicals
· 8. Malthus
· 9. Bentham
· 10. James Mill
· 11. Ricardo
· 12. The Benthamite
Doctrine
· 13. Democracy in England
· 14. Free Trade
Section C: Socialism
· 15. Owen and Early British
Socialism
· 16. Early Trade Unionism
· 17.
Marx and
Engels
· 18. Dialectical
Materialism [III.4.]
· 19. The Theory of Surplus
Value [III.4.]
· 20. The Politics of
Marxism
PART III: Democracy and Plutocracy in America
Section A: Democracy in America
· 21. Jeffersonian Democracy
· 22. The Settlement of the
West
· 23. Jacksonian Democracy
· 24. Slavery and Disunion
· 25.
Lincoln
Section B: Competition and Monopoly in America
· 26. Competitive Capitalism
· 27. The Approach to
Monopoly
PART IV:
Nationalism and Imperialism
· 28. The Principle of
Nationality
· 29. Bismarck
· 30. The Economic
Development of the German Empire
· 31. Imperialism
· 32. The Arbiters of Europe
· Conclusion
· Notes
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