Rereading Russell: Essays on Bertrand Russell's Metaphysics and Epistemology

Volume 12
Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Table of Contents

Note on References . . . vii

List of Abbreviations . . . ix

Preface . . . xi

Introduction . . . 3

Russell's Reasons for Ramification . . . 24
Warren Goldfarb

Russell's Theory of Logical Types and the Atomistic Hierarchy of Sentences . . . 41
Nino B. Cocchiarella

Russell's Paradox, Russellian Relations, and the Problems of Predication and Impredicativity . . . 63
Herbert Hochberg

The Significance of "On Denoting" . . . 88
Peter Hylton

Russelling Causal Theories of Reference . . . 108
Richard Fumerton

Russell on Indexicals and Scientific Knowledge . . . 119
Janet Farrell Smith

Sense-Data in Russell's Theories of Knowledge . . . 138
C. Wade Savage

Russell's 1913 Theory of Knowledge Manuscript . . . 169
David Pears

The Concept of Structure in The Analysis of Matter . . . 183
William Demopoulos and Michael Friedman

On Induction and Russell's Postulates . . . 200
R. M. Sainsbury

Concepts of Projectability and the Problems of Induction . . . 220
John Earman

Giving up Judgment Empiricism: The Bayesian Epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Grover Maxwell . . . 234
James Hawthorne

Russell on Order in Time . . . 249
C. Anthony Anderson

Cause in the Later Russell . . . 264
Elizabeth R. Eames

Portrait of a Philosopher of Science . . . 281
Kenneth Blackwell

References . . . 297

Notes on Contributors . . . 305

Author Index . . . 311

Subject Index . . . 313