The Russell/Bradley Dispute And Its Significance For Twentieth-Century Philosophy Book

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
List of Abbreviations     xix
The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute     1
The protagonists     1
Locating the dispute     3
The stereotypical picture outlined     4
The sources and pervasiveness of the stereotype     6
Displacing the stereotype     18
Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics     21
Preliminary sketch     21
The foundations of Bradley's thought     24
Intellectual satisfaction     26
Ideal experiment     27
The sceptical principle, mark I     33
The attack on predication     37
The attack on external relations     39
The sceptical principle, marks II and III     40
The attack on internal relations     42
To monism and idealism     44
Contingency, sufficient reason and circularity     46
Judgment     49
Introduction     49
An initial contrast between Bradley and Russell on judgment     50
Russell's 1903 binary relation theory of judgment     53
The origins of the multiple relation theory of judgment     58
The 1910 version     62
The 1912 version     67
The 1913 version     69
The 1918 non-theory     73
Subsequent developments     75
Truth     78
Introduction     78
Bradley and the coherence theory of truth     79
Bradley on coherence and correspondence     81
Russell and the correspondence theory of truth     85
The derivation of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth     89
The nature of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth     93
The availability of the identity theory of truth     97
Russell and the identity theory of truth     100
Russell, the multiple relation theory, and correspondence     103
Grammar and Ontology     106
The transparency thesis, the theory of descriptions, and the usual story     106
The consequences of replacing the usual story     111
Grammar, descriptions and analysis     115
Negative propositions     120
Universal propositions     124
Subject-predicate grammar and the status of relations     128
Subject-predicate grammar: substance and attribute     136
Coda     140
Relations     141
The significance of relations     141
Logic, metaphysics and internal relations     145
Interpreting the doctrine of internal relations     150
The development of Bradley's views on relations     155
Russell, internality and unreality     163
Bradley's arguments for the unreality of relations and their terms     167
Decline and Fall     174
Health warning     174
The decline of monistic idealism     174
Conclusion     184
Notes     189
Bibliography     215
Bibliographical Note     225
Index     227