The Russell Bradley dispute and its significance for twentith century philosophy/
Stewart Candlish.
- UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- 235 p. ill. 24 cm.
The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute The protagonists Locating the dispute , The stereotypical picture outlined The sources and pervasiveness of the stereotype Displacing the stereotype Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics Preliminary sketch The foundations of Bradley's thought Intellectual satisfaction Ideal experiment The sceptical principle, mark 1 The attack on predication The attack on external relations The sceptical principle, marks 11 and 111 The attack on internal relations To monism and idealism Contingency, sufficient reason and circularity Judgment Introduction An initial contrast between Bradley and Russell on judgment Russell's 1903 binary relation theory of judgment The origins of the multiple relation theory of judgment The 1910 version The 1912 version The 1913 version The 1918 non-theory Subsequent developments Truth Introduction Bradley and the coherence theory of truth Bradley on coherence and correspondence Russell and the correspondence theory of truth The derivation of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth The nature of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth The availability of the identity theory of truth Russell and the identity theory of truth Russell, the multiple relation theory, and correspondence Grammar and Ontology The transparency thesis, the theory of descriptions, and the usual story The consequences of replacing the usual story Grammar, descriptions and analysis Negative propositions Universal propositions Subject-predicate grammar and the status of relations Subject-predicate grammar: substance and attribute Coda Relations The significance of relations Logic, metaphysics and internal relations Interpreting the doctrine of internal relations The development of Bradley's views on relations Russell, internality and unreality Bradley's arguments for the unreality of relations and their terms Decline and Fall Health warning The decline of monistic idealism Conclusion