Philosophical Essays
Bertrand Russell
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two of the essays occurring here were reprinted in Russell's 1917 "Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays". Nonetheless, this essay records Russell's thinking at a critical juncture, just before the publication of Volume I of the co-authored "Principia Mathematica" and just after the passing of the American pragmatist, William James. These essays record Russell's reactions to pragmatism and its theory of truth, as well as the ethical aspects of philosophy suitable for co-existing alongside the new logical method in philosophy, announced subsequently in the 1914 "Our Knowledge of the External World: as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy". - Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind (7 hr 14 min)
Chapters
Preface | 3:40 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The Elements of Ethics | 1:08:26 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The Elements of Ethics | 1:08:13 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The Free Man's Worship | 25:55 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The Study of Mathematics | 34:34 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
Pragmatism-Part 1 | 51:55 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
Pragmatism- Part 2 | 41:18 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
William James' Conception of Truth | 54:34 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The Monistic Theory of Truth | 47:25 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood | 38:48 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
Reviews
good book well read
Thiago Coelho
Landon does a great job and he’s basically the voice of Russell for me now. I don’t like Russell all that much but I’ll take any philosophy audiobooks I can get, tbh I wouldn’t care about this book if not for librivox