The Analysis Of Mind, Bertrand Russell
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- The Analysis Of Mind, Bertrand Russell
- Publication year listed
- 1900
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The Analysis Of Mind, Bertrand Russell
Author: Bertrand Russell
Year: 1900
Published in 1921, Bertrand Russell’s The Analysis of Mind is a foundational text in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of mind. Interestingly, Russell began writing the book while imprisoned in London for his pacifist opposition to World War I, and he eventually completed it while lecturing in Beijing. At the time of its publication, science was pulling in two different directions: psychology was becoming increasingly materialistic through the rise of Behaviorism, while physics was becoming decidedly less materialistic due to emerging theories of relativity and quantum mechanics. Russell’s primary goal in this book was to reconcile these two opposing trends, effectively bridging the materialism of psychology with the antimaterialism of physics. Here is a breakdown of the book's core concepts: The Core Thesis: Neutral Monism Historically, philosophers argued over two extremes: idealism (reality is fundamentally mental) and materialism (reality is fundamentally physical). Furthermore, thinkers like René Descartes argued for dualism—the idea that mind and body are two completely different types of substances that somehow interact. In The Analysis of Mind, Russell rejects all thre
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