Bertrand Russell: His Works

Volume 2: Philosophical Papers, 1896-99

Edited by Nicholas Griffin and Albert C. Lewis
Textual Apparatus Prepared by William G. Stratton
London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Pages: xxxix, 647.
ISBN: 0-04-920095-X (set)

PART I. THE DIALECTIC OF THE SCIENCES (1896-99)

1 Note on the Logic of the Sciences [c.1896]
2 Various Notes on Mathematical Philosophy [1896-98]
3 Four Notes on Dynamics [c.1896]
4 Review of Hannequin, Essai critique sur l'hypothèse des atomes dans la science contemporaine [1896]
5 On Some Difficulties of Continuous Quantity [1896]
6 Review of Couturat, De l'Infini mathématique [1897]
7 On the Relations of Number and Quantity [1897]
8 The Philosophy of Matter [1897]
9 On the Conception of Matter in Mixed Mathematics [1897]
10 Motion in a Plenum [1897]
11 Why Do We Regard Time, But Not Space, as Necessarily a Plenum? [1897]
12 Review of Love, Theoretical Mechanics [1898]
13 On Causality as Used in Dynamics [1898]
14 Review of Goblot, Essai sur la classification des sciences [1898]
15 On Quantity and Allied Conceptions [1898]
16 The Classification of Relations [1899]
17 Review of Meinong, Ueber die Bedeutung des Weber'schen Gesetzes [1899]

PART II: AN ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING (1898)

18 An Analysis of Mathematical Reasoning Being an Inquiry into the Subject-Matter, the Fundamental Conceptions, and the Necessary Postulates of Mathematics [1898]

aManuscript Material
bTypescript Material
cFragments of Early Drafts

PART III: PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (1898-99)

19 On the Principles of Arithmetic [1898]
20 The Fundamental Ideas and Axioms of Mathematics [1899]

aSynoptic Table of Contents
b Notes and Drafts
cFragments of Part I

PART IV: GEOMETRY (1898-99)

21 On the Constituents of Space and Their Mutual Relations [1898]
22 Are Euclid's Axioms Empirical? [1898]
23 Note on Order [1898]
24 Notes on Geometry [1899
25 The Axioms of Geometry [1899

APPENDICES

I French Texts
II Miscellaneous Notes
III Extracts from Russell's Mathematical Notebook of 1896
IV Lost Papers
V Versos from Paper 3
VI Reading Lists for the Philosophy of Dynamics [c.1897]

Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

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