The philosopher contemplates his burnt wings
David Pears, 18 October 1984
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. VII: Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript
edited by Elizabeth RamsdenEames and Kenneth Blackwell.
Allen and Unwin, 258 pp., £35, May 1984,0 04 920073 9 Show More
edited by Elizabeth RamsdenEames and Kenneth Blackwell.
Allen and Unwin, 258 pp., £35, May 1984,
“... The seventh volume of Russell’s Collected Papers contains the core of a book which he never completed. He stopped working on it, probably because he felt that he could not honestly go on. He had hoped that Wittgenstein would approve of what he had been writing, but when they met in May 1913, Wittgenstein told him that it was all wrong, and, as Russell admitted to Ottoline Morrell, he did not know how to answer Wittgenstein’s objections ... ”