The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he brought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge of the External World. In October 1910 he began teaching at Cambridge, having accepted an appointment as lecturer in logic and the principles of mathematics at Trinity College for a term of five years. A year later Ludwig Wittgenstein began to attend his lectures. Within a few months he was...
The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive of Russell's entire career. In addition to...
Is disseminating information the main purpose of scholarly scientific literature? Recent work in science studies signals a shift of emphasis from conceptual to material sources, from thinking to doing, and from representing the world to intervening in it. Scientific knowledge production is no longer seen as a process of seeking, collecting, organizing, and processing abstract elements, but instead one of assembling the many different material 'bits and pieces' of scientific culture in order to make things work.
In Deflating Information, Bernd Frohmann draws on recent work in...
Is disseminating information the main purpose of scholarly scientific literature? Recent work in science studies signals a shift of emphasis from c...
