Russell - a Very Short Indroduction
“Logical atomism is principally a method, and Russell hoped that it would resolve questions about the nature of perception and its relation to physics. It is important to note that Russell’s philosophical work in the four decades after Principia Mathematica is chiefly devoted to the particular question of the relation of perception to physics, and is in effect thus an attempt to provide a (qualified) empirical basis for science, considered as the theory of the world which has the best chance of ...being true or at least on the way to truth. Logical atomism also thereby gave Russell his metaphysics – that is, his account of the nature of reality – which turns out not to be, at least in a straightforward way, the current physics of matter, but a representation of it as a logical structure. Russell’s accounts of his metaphysical views almost invariably take the form of a sketch occupying the concluding parts of his various discussions of logical analysis; most of his attention is devoted to describing the analytical strategy itself.The philosophy of logical atomismRussell describes logical atomism in a number of places, the most important being the chapter in OKEW entitled ‘Logic as the Essence of Philosophy’, and the series of lectures delivered in 1918 under the heading ‘The Philosophy of Logical Atomism’ (reprinted in Marsh, Logic and Knowledge).MoreLess
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