In Quest of Certainty; Bertrand Russell's search for certainty in religion
and mathmatics up to The Principles of Mathematics(1903), by Stefan Andersson.
Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1994. xiii, 192 p.
(Studia Philosophiae Religionis, n. 18) *Paper ed.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Chap. 1 Earlier research and a presentation of some autobiographical sources
and main ideas
Chap. 2 The historical background: The victorian crisis of faith,
agnosticism and the devolopment in science, mathmatics and logic
Chap. 3 Religion in the Russell family
Chap. 4 Russell's early life and education(1872-1890)
Chap. 5 Cambridge. Three years of mathematics - one year of philosophy
(1890-1894)
Chap. 6 Towards mysticism and logicism(1894-1903)
Chap. 7 Russell's first version of logicism
Chap. 8 Russell's view on definitions and a discussion of central concepts
Summary
Bibliography
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