# My Philosophical Development

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{{Short description|Book by Bertrand Russell}}
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'''''My Philosophical Development''''' is a 1959 book by the philosopher [Bertrand Russell](/source/Bertrand_Russell), in which the author summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life.<ref>{{citation|title=''My Philosophical Development'' by Bertrand Russell|first=T. V.|last=Smith|journal=Ethics|volume=70|issue=1|year=1959|jstor= 2379632|pages=93–94|doi=10.1086/291259}}.</ref>

==Summary==

Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his [Hegelian](/source/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel) period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science.  He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of [idealism](/source/idealism) and adoption of a [mathematical logic](/source/mathematical_logic) founded upon that of [Giuseppe Peano](/source/Giuseppe_Peano).  After two chapters on ''[Principia Mathematica](/source/Principia_Mathematica)'' (1910-1913), he passes to the problems of perception as dealt with in ''Our Knowledge of the External World'' (1914).  In a chapter on ‘The Impact of [Wittgenstein](/source/Ludwig_Wittgenstein)’, Russell examines what he now thinks must be accepted and what rejected in that philosopher's work.  He notes the changes from earlier theories required by the adoption of [William James's](/source/William_James) view that sensation is not essentially relational and is not per se a form of knowledge. In an explanatory chapter, he endeavors to remove misconceptions of and objections to his theories as to the relation of perception to scientific knowledge. Russell concludes with a reprint of some articles on modern Oxford philosophy.

There is an appendix, "Russell's philosophy", by [Alan Wood](/source/Alan_Wood_(author)).<ref>[https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA29720978 My philosophical development, Bertrand Russell; with an appendix, Russell's philosophy by Alan Wood; Simon and Schuster, 1959], nii.ac.jp, CiNii Research, accessed 5 March 2025</ref>

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