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The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell info

First published 1912

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About this book

The best short introduction ever written.

The author

Bertrand Russell

1872–1970 · British philosopher and logician

  • Nobel laureate
  • Professor at Cambridge
  • Professor at LSE
  • Professor at UCLA
Profession
Philosopher, Logician, Professor
Worked at
Cambridge, LSE, UCLA, Chicago
Studied at
Cambridge, Frederick William University Berlin
Studied under
Alfred North Whitehead
Prizes
Nobel Prize in Literature (1950), De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Fellow of the Royal Society (1908), Kalinga Prize (1957), Sonning Prize (1960), Jerusalem Prize (1963), Medal Carl von Ossietzky

Took hundreds of pages of Principia Mathematica to reach 1 + 1 = 2.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: What Does It All Mean? (Nagel)

Then read: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)

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Editions

288 editions · 6 hardcover, 16 paperback · 2 languages

First published 1912

Earliest edition listed: 1900 · Williams and Norgate

  • 1900 · Williams and Norgate
  • 1910 · Williams and Norgate · New and rev. ed.
  • 1912 · H. Holt · [Microform] / · ISBN 9780790574592
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  • 1912 · Oxford University Press
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  • 1912 · Westland, Brian · ISBN 9781774417416
  • 1912 · H. Holt and company
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  • 1912 · Williams & Norgate
  • 1912 · H. Holt
  • 1923 · Williams & Norgate
  • 1929 · T. Butterworth limited
  • 1937 · Editorial Labor · 2. ed. · Spanish
  • 1945 · Oxford University Press
  • 1954 · Oxford University Press
  • 1959 · Oxford University Press
  • 1959 · Oxford University Press
  • 1959 · Oxford University Press · ISBN 9780195002126
  • 1959 · Oxford University Press
  • 1968 · Oxford University Press
  • 1972 · Oxford University Press
  • 1975 · Oxford University Press
  • 1983 · Century Bookbindery · Textbook Binding · ISBN 9780899848761
  • 1988 · Prometheus Books · ISBN 9780879754976
  • 1990 · Hackett Pub. Co. · ISBN 9780872200999
  • 1997 · Oxford University Press · ISBN 9780195115529
  • 1998 · Transaction Publishers · ISBN 9781560005391
  • 1998 · Oxford University Press · 2nd ed. · ISBN 9780192892980
  • 1999 · Dover Publications · Paperback · ISBN 9780486406749
  • 2001 · Oxford University Press · 2nd ed. · ISBN 9780192854230
  • 2004 · IndyPublish.com · Hardcover · ISBN 9781414270586
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