The Early Russell on the Metaphysics of Substance in Leibniz and Bradley

• Published in: Synthese (Dordrecht) Vol. 163; no. 2; pp. 245 - 261
• Main Author: Hillman, T. Allan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.07.2008; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Apprenticeship; Aristotelianism; Education; Epistemology; Epistemology. Philosophy of science. Theory of knowledge; Essays; Idealism; Identity formation; Individuation; Judgment; Logic; Mathematics; Metaphysics; Monism; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Science; Political independence; Predicate; Predicates; Principles; Reality; Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970); Truth; New York; Monism; Idealism; Independence; Subject-predicate logic; Metaphysics; Relations; G. E. Moore; Properties; F. H. Bradley; Pluralism; G. W. Leibniz; Individuation; Substance; Bertrand Russell; Judgment; Science philosophy

While considerable ink has been spilt over the rejection of idealism by Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore at the end of the 19th Century, relatively little attention has been directed at Russell's "A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz", a work written in the early stages o...