References for Bertrand Russell

  1. T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Bertrand_Arthur_William_Russell.aspx
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064464/Bertrand-Russell

    Russell's Writings
    Russell wrote over eighty books, and hundreds of articles, on a wide variety of topics. The most complete listing of his publications is in A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (3 vols, London: Routledge, 1994), by Kenneth Blackwell and Harry Ruja. A less detailed, but still comprehensive list appears in Paul Arthur Schilpp's The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (3rd ed., New York: Harper and Row, 1963).
    Among the most important of Russell's logical and mathematical writings are the following:

  3. (1897) An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry, Cambridge: At the University Press.
  4. (1903) The Principles of Mathematics, Cambridge: At the University Press.
  5. (1908) Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types, American Journal of Mathematics 30 (1908), 222-262. Repr. in B Russell, Logic and Knowledge (London, Allen and Unwin, 1956), 59-102, and in J van Heijenoort, From Frege to Gödel (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967), 152-182.
  6. (1910, 1912, 1913) (with Alfred North Whitehead) Principia Mathematica, 3 vols, (Cambridge: At the University Press). Abridged as Principia Mathematica to *56, (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1962).
  7. (1919) Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (London: George Allen and Unwin, New York: The Macmillan Company).
  8. (1931) The Scientific Outlook (London: George Allen and Unwin, New York: W.W. Norton).
  9. (1956) Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901-1950 (London: George Allen and Unwin, New York: The Macmillan Company).
  10. (1992) Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 6 (London and New York: Routledge, 1992).
  11. (1993) Toward the Principles of Mathematics The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 3 (London and New York: Routledge).
  12. (1994) Foundations of Logic, 1903-05, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Vol. 4 (London and New York: Routledge, 1994).

    Four volumes of autobiography may also be of interest to the general reader:

  13. (1959) My Philosophical Development (London: George Allen and Unwin, New York: Simon and Schuster).
  14. (1967, 1968, 1969) The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, 3 vols, (London: George Allen and Unwin, Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Company (Vols 1 and 2), New York: Simon and Schuster (Vol. 3)).

    No comprehensive bibliography of the secondary literature surrounding Russell exists to date. A selected list (of approximately 1,000 entries) appears in A D Irvine's Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments, 4 vols, (London: Routledge, 1996).

Books:

  1. A J Ayer, Bertrand Russell (1988).
  2. R W Clark, The Life of Bertrand Russell (London: J. Cape, 1975).
  3. R Clark, Bertrand Russell : and his world (London, 1981).
  4. A R Garciadiego (Dantan), Bertrand Russell and the Origins of the Set-Theoretic 'Paradoxes', (Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1992).
  5. I Grattan-Guinness, Dear Russell, Dear Jourdain: A Commentary on Russell's Logic, Based on His Correspondence with Philip Jourdain (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977).
  6. G H Hardy, Bertrand Russell and Trinity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970).
  7. A D Irvine, Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments, 4 vols, (London: Routledge, 1996).
  8. C W Kilmister, Russell (1984).
  9. E D Klemke (ed.), Essays on Bertrand Russell (Urbana, 1970).
  10. P G Kuntz, Bertrand Russell (1986).
  11. R Monk, Bertrand Russell : the spirit of solitude (London, 1996).
  12. C Moorehead, Bertrand Russell : a life (London, 1992).
  13. F A Rodriguez-Consuegra, The Mathematical Philosophy of Bertrand Russell: Origins and Development (Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1991).
  14. R M Sainsbury, Russell (1985).
  15. P A Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, (Chicago: Northwestern University, 1944, 3rd ed., New York: Harper and Row, 1963).
  16. R Schoenman (ed.), Bertrand Russell : philosopher of the century : essays in his honour (London, 1967).
  17. J G Slater, Bertrand Russell (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1994).
  18. J Watling, Bertrand Russell (Edinburgh, 1970).

Articles:

  1. C D Broad, Bertrand Russell as Philosopher, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 5 (1973), 328-341.
  2. R Carnap, The Logicist Foundations of Mathematics, Erkenntnis 2 (1931), 91-105. Repr. in P Benacerraf and H Putnam (eds), Philosophy of Mathematics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 41-52, in E D Klemke (ed.), Essays on Bertrand Russell (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970), 341-354, and in D F Pears (ed.), Bertrand Russell: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1972), 175-191.
  3. A Church, Comparison of Russell's Resolution of the Semantical Antinomies With That of Tarski, Journal of Symbolic Logic 41 (1976), 747-760.
  4. R O Gandy, Bertrand Russell, as Mathematician, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 5 (1973), 342-348.
  5. K Gödel, Russell's Mathematical Logic, in P A Schilpp (ed.), The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, 3rd ed., (New York: Tudor, 1951), 123-153. Repr. in P Benacerraf and H Putnam (eds), Philosophy of Mathematics, 2nd ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 447-469, and in D F Pears, (ed.) Bertrand Russell: A Collection of Critical Essays, (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1972), 192-226.
  6. G Hellman, How to Gödel a Frege-Russell: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems and Logicism, Nous 15 (1981), 451-468 and in A D Irvine, Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments, Vol 2, (London: Routledge, 1996).
  7. P W Hylton, Logic in Russell's Logicism, in D Bell and N Cooper (eds), The Analytic Tradition: Philosophical Quarterly Monographs, Vol. 1, (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1990), 137-172 and in A D Irvine, Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments, Vol 2, (London: Routledge, 1996).
  8. A D Irvine, Epistemic Logicism and Russell's Regressive Method, Philosophical Studies 55 (1989), 303-327.
  9. W V Quine, On the Theory of Types, Journal of Symbolic Logic 3 (1938), 125-139 and in A D Irvine, Bertrand Russell: Critical Assessments, Vol 2, (London: Routledge, 1996).
  10. F P Ramsey, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Gazette 13 (1926), 185-194. Repr. in F P Ramsey, The Foundations of Mathematics (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), 62-81, in F P Ramsey, Foundations (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), 213-232, and in F P Ramsey, Philosophical Papers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 225-244.

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