This book deals with a crucial period in the formation of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. It discusses the tradition of British Idealism, and the rejection of that tradition by Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore at the beginning of this century. It goes on to examine the very influential work of Russell in the period up to the First World War, and addresses the question of what we can learn about the nature of analytic philosophy through a close examination of its origins. - ;Introduction; Part I: The idealist background: T. H. Green; F. H. Bradley; Russell's idealist period; Part II: Platonic Atomism: Introduction; The underlying metaphysics; Russell's Principles of Mathematics; `On denoting'; Part III: Logic, fact, and knowledge: Introduction; The logic of r Principia Mathematica; Judgement, belief, and knowledge: The emergence of a method; Bibliography; Index -
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This book deals with a crucial period in the formation of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. It discusses the tradition of British Idealism, and the rejection of that tradition by Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore at the beginning of this century. It goes on to examine the very influential work of Russell in the period up to the First World War, and addresses the question of what we can learn about the nature of analytic philosophy through a close examination of its origins. - ;Introduction; Part I: The idealist background: T. H. Green; F. H. Bradley; Russell's idealist period; Part II: Platonic Atomism: Introduction; The underlying metaphysics; Russell's Principles of Mathematics; `On denoting'; Part III: Logic, fact, and knowledge: Introduction; The logic of r Principia Mathematica; Judgement, belief, and knowledge: The emergence of a method; Bibliography; Index -