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Bertrand Russell
(1872—1970) philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner
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chicken
A two-person strategic game (1), generally considered to be the prototype of a dangerous game. In its canonical interpretation, two motorists speed towards each other. Each has the option of swerving ...
knowledge by acquaintance, and knowledge by description
This distinction was made by Bertrand Russell (see especially Russell 1914: 151). Knowledge by acquaintance is ‘what we derive from sense’, which does not imply ‘even the smallest “knowledge about” ’ ...
mind–body problem
The philosophical problem, usually attributed to the French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) of explaining the apparent interaction of mental and physical events, which appear to belong to two ...
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872–1970) Reference library
Richard L. Gregory
The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
By general consent the most distinguished philosopher of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell made fundamental contributions to logic, and influenced equally academic and popular philosophy, ...
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Russell's philosophy of mind: dualism
When Russell wrote about the mind, his gaze was also fixed on the physical world beyond it, because he wanted to explain how minds can acquire knowledge of what lies ...
Russell's philosophy of mind: neutral monism
The philosophy of mind adopted by Russell in his middle period was neutral monism, which denies that there is any irreducible difference between the mental and the physical and tries ...
Warren Sturgis McCulloch
(1898–1968).As a young man, Warren McCulloch set himself the goal of developing an experimental epistemology, to understand the mind in terms of the brain. More particularly, he sought to ...
Wittgenstein's philosophy of language
The philosophy of language gives a general account of the nature and function of language. The central question that it tries to answer is, ‘What is meaning?’. It is closely ...
Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic and mathematics
Both logic and mathematics are concerned with connections of thought—for example, the connection between the information that there are two heaps of walnuts on the table, each containing twelve nuts ...
