The Russell/Bradley Dispute and Its Significance for Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Candlish, Stewart
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BOOK SUMMARY
In the early twentieth century an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F. H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The historical outcome was momentous: the demise of the movement known as British Idealism, and its eventual replacement by th
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In the early twentieth century an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F. H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The historical outcome was momentous: the demise of the movement known as British Idealism, and its eventual replacement by the various forms of analytic philosophy. Since then, a conception of this debate and its rights and wrongs has become entrenched in English-language philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh the events of this formative period in twentieth-century thought and comes to some surprising conclusions.
AUTHOR BIO
STEWART CANDLISH is Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at The University of Western Australia and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface * The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute * Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics * Judgment * Truth * Grammar and Ontology * Relations * Decline and Fall * Bibliography * Index Preface * The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute * Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics * Judgment * Truth * Grammar and Ontology * Relations * Decline and Fall * Bibliography * Index
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"What Candlish achieves is not only a detailed exploration of the philosophical dispute between Russell and Bradley (that is, between Analytical Philosophy and its immediate ancestor), but also an explanation of why that dispute is philosophically and historically significant. As such it is not only revealing about why Russell attached great importance to Bradley's criticisms; it is also compelling as a case for why those of us continuing to pursue the Russellian project have much to learn from revisiting the dispute."--Graham Stevens, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester "Stewart Candlish's elegant, iconoclastic study of the Bradley/Russell dispute puts the arguments, the stakes, and the outcome into an entirely new 'Stewart Candlish's elegant, iconoclastic study of the Bradley/Russell dispute puts the arguments, the stakes, and the outcome into an entirely new perspective. It should be required reading for anyone even tempted by a Whiggish interpretation of the history of recent philosophy."--James W. Allard, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University  "This excellent analysis of the dispute between Russell and Bradley makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the origins of twentieth-century philosophy. Anchored in a detailed knowledge of the texts it advances beyond more simplistic versions of their disagreement to offer new and important analyses of the points at issue between these two great philosophers. It is a book that all subsequent scholars will need to take account of. The writing is as clear and precise as it is fluid and engaging."William Mander, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University
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ISBN: 0230506852
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230506855
Dewey Decimal: 192
Library of Congress: 2006044842
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 235
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