Russell and Bradley: Rehabilitating the Creation Narrative of Analytic Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.15173/jhap.v5i7.3050Abstract
According to Stewart Candlish, Russell and Moore had misunderstood F. H. Bradley’s monism. According to Jonathan Schaffer, they had misunderstood monism more generally. A key thread of the creation narrative of analytic philosophy, according to which Russell and Moore successfully undermined monism to give rise to a new movement is, therefore, in doubt. In this paper, I defend the standard narrative against those who seek to revise it.References
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———, 1924. ‘Relations.’ In Bradley (1935), pp. 629–76.
———, 1935. F. H. Bradley: Collected Essays, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Candlish, Stewart and Pierfrancesco Basile, 2013. ‘Francis Herbert Bradley.’ In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley/, accessed 9 May 2017.
Edgington, Dorothy, 1997. ‘Vagueness by Degrees.’ In Vagueness, edited by R. Keefe and P. Smith, pp. 294–316. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ewing, A. C., 1933. Idealism: A Critical Survey. New York: Humanities Press.
Gabriel, Gottfried, 2002. ‘Frege, Lotze, and the Continental Roots of Early Analytic Philosophy.’ In From Frege to Wittgenstein, edited by E. Reck, pp. 39–51. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Griffin, Nicholas, 1998. ‘Did Russell’s Criticisms Miss Their Mark?’ In Stock (1998), pp. 153–62.
Hylton, Peter, 1990. Russell, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Joachim, Harold, 1906. The Nature of Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Künne, Wolfgang, Mark Siebel and Mark Textor, eds., 1997. Bolzano and Analytic Philosophy. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Lebens, Samuel, 2008. ‘A Substantive Non-solution to the Problem of Unity.’ Baltic International Yearbook of Logic, Cognition and Communication 4: 1–27.
———, 2017. Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement. New York and London: Routledge.
Milkov, Nikolay, 2000. ‘Lotze and the Early Cambridge Analytic Philosophy.’ Prima Philosophia 13: 133–53.
Moore, G. E., 1919. ‘External and Internal Relations.’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 20: 40–62.
Russell, Bertrand, 1903. The Principles of Mathematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
———, 1906. ‘On the Nature of Truth.’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 7: 28–49.
———, 1918. ‘The Philosophy of Logical Atomism.’ Reprinted in Russell (1957), pp. 175–282.
———, 1919. ‘On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean.’ Reprinted in Russell (1957), pp. 283–320
———, 1957. Logic and Knowledge, edited by R. C. Marsh. London: Allen and Unwin.
Schaffer, Jonathan, 2010a. ‘Monism: The Priority of the Whole.’ Philosophical Review 119: 31–76.
———, 2010b. ‘The Internal Relatedness of All Things.’ Mind 119: 341–76.
———, 2013. ‘The Action of the Whole.’ Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society suppl. vol. 87: 67–87.
Sluga, Hans, 1980. Gottlob Frege. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Smith, N. J. J., 2008. Vaguness and Degrees of Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sprigge, Timothy, 1979. ‘Russell and Bradley on Relations.’ In The Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume, edited by G. W. Roberts, pp. 150–70. London: Allen and Unwin.
Stock, Guy, ed., 1998. Appearance versus Reality: New Essays on Bradley’s Metaphysics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
van Inwagen, Peter, 2002. Metaphysics. Boulder: Westview Press.
Watling, John, 1970. Bertrand Russell. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.
Zimmerman, Dean, forthcoming. ‘A Recent Defense of Monism Based Upon the Internal Relatedness of All Things.’ Draft of 7 August 2015.
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