Bertrand Russell, Feminism, and Women Philosophers in His Circle

ISBN-13: 9783031330254 / Angielski

Landon D. C. Elkind; Alexander Mugar Klein

Spis treści

1. Editors’ Introduction

2. A Moral and Intellectual Evaluation of Russell’s Romantic/Sexual Practices

3. Bertrand and Dora Russell on sex, marriage and the rule of fathers

4. Sex, Suffrage, and Marriage: Russell and Feminism

5. Alice Ambrose and women’s work in the foundations debate at the University of Cambridge, 1932-1937

6. Alice Ambrose and Margaret MacDonald: Two Women Who Challenged Bertrand Russell on Ordinary Language

7. Susan Stebbing and Russell’s Logical Atomism

8. Grandmothers and Founding Mothers of Analytic Philosophy: Constance Jones, Bertrand Russell, and Susan Stebbing on Complete and Incomplete Symbols

9. Dorothy Wrinch and the Man of the Century

10. “I like her very much—she has very good brains.”: Dorothy Wrinch’s influence on Bertrand Russell

11. Patricia Russell and Her Influence on Bertrand Russell

O autorze

Landon D. C. Elkind is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Western Kentucky University. He currently directs the Principia Rewrite project, which has a Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also has a new textual edition of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Alexander Klein is Canada Research Chair, Director of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. His work focuses on the histories of analytic philosophy and of pragmatism, with a special emphasis on naturalistic philosophy of mind in that historical context (i.e., late 19th and early 20th century). He has both a monograph and an edited book forthcoming with Oxford University Press.