Alberto Mendez

A very cutting edge compendium about to be one of the first line of consulting reference regarding Bertrand Russell 's philosophical thought. This book published by Open Court under the Press of Southern University of Illinois at Carbondale and edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp, is one of the most important books about philosophy of Bertrand Russell. Also, it can be considered amongst the most outstanding works authored by Russell himself if we take into account that Russell himself participated and collaborated in the preparation of the whole subject matter. This thick book under go through the whole work of Russell since his remarkable early work about Leibniz throughout the main important references about "On Denoting" until his magnum opus "Principia Mathematica". Russell goes through a very wide spectrum of topics from Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Language and Epistemology until to Science, particularly Mathematics and finally Politics and Ethics. He was one of the top philosophers of the Twentieth Century. The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell edited by Schilpp at Open Court has been a very good opportunity to many philosophers and scientist to collaborate in this mega project to which they were called to be part of a very remarkable list in which were included Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, G.E.Moore, Alfred Ayer and Alfred North Whitehead amongst the more important thinkers and academics. Academic, professionals, philosophers and whoever intellectuals and passioned followers of this subject matter are interested in, they can considered this book such as one of the main important references to be used for academic purposes or similar subject matter around.