Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.

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Omar W. Nasim is Professor for the History of Science at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is the author of Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century, winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award for 2016. And more recently, Nasim is the author of The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History (2021).

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Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Stout's Proto-New-Realism British New Realism: The Language of Madness British New Realism: The Language of Common-Sense Russell and the Nature of Sense-Data The Methods of Construction The Methods of Logical Construction Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index