Thoughts about Russell's thoughts [Book Review]
Times Higher Education (1998)
Abstract
This collection of essays by acclaimed philosophers explores Bertrand Russell's influence on
one of the dominant philosophical approaches of this century. Michael Dummett argues that
analytical philosophy began with Gottlob Frege's analysis of numbers. Frege had begun by
inquiring about the nature of number, but found it more fruitful to ask instead about the
meanings of sentences containing number words. Russell was to exploit this method
systematically. I reflect on the essays of Charles R. Pigden, David Lewis as an exponent of a variant of Russell's position: the good is what we are ideally disposed to desire to desire, and Greenspan's suggestion that Russell adopted some element of the Marxist theory on morals.
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