Russell: A Guide for the Perplexed

John Ongley teaches philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. He is co-author, with Rosalind Carey, of A Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy (2009) and past editor of the Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly.Rosalind Carey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement (Continuum, 2007) and Russell on Meaning: The Emergence of Scientific Philosophy From the 1920s to the 1940s (forthcoming 2014), and co-author, with John Ongley, of A Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy (2009).

What's especially good about Ongley and Carey's book is its accessibility to all intelligent readers, not just Russell scholars...And the chapters on the rest of his technical philosophy are not only clearly presented, but are neatly separated into the early, middle, and late Russell so that the reader can gain an understanding of the evolution and coherence of Russell's philosophical thought over more than half a century.

• Preface \ 1. Introduction \ 2. Naive Logicism \ 3. Restricted Logicism \ 4. Metaphysics \ 5. Theory of Knowledge \ 6. Language and Meaning \ 7. The Infinite \ Endnotes \ Further Reading \ References \ Index