Bertrand Russell. Works (1897-1922)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

“Experience has shown us that, hitherto, the frequent repetition of some uniform succession or coexistence has been a cause of our expecting the same succession or coexistence on the next occasion . . . Things that we see become associated, by habit, with certain tactile sensations which we expect if we touch them . . .  And this kind of association is not confined to men; in animals also it is very strong. A horse which has been often driven along a certain road resists the attempt to drive him in a different direction. Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken” (Russell, The Problems of Philosophy,1912).

• An essay on the foundations of geometry (1897)

• The principles of mathematics (1903)

• Principia Mathematica Vol I (1910-1913)

• Principia Mathematica Vol II (1910-1913)

• Principia Mathematica Vol III (1910-1913)

• Philosophical essays (1910)

• The problems of philosophy (1912)

• The philosophy of Bergson (1914)

• Justice in war time (1916)

• Mysticism and logic, and other essays (1918)

• Introduction to mathematical philosophy (1919)

• Proposed roads to freedom : socialism, anarchism and syndicalism (1919)

• The analysis of mind (1921)

• The practice and theory of bolshevism (1921)

• The problem of China (1922)