A Substantive Non-Solution To The Problem Of Unity

Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Lebens, Samuel¹ 

[1] Birkbeck College London$$Birkbeck College LondonBirkbeck College London$$

关键词: philosophy;    History of Analytical Philosophy;   

DOI  :  10.4148/biyclc.v4i0.141

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: New Prairie Press

【 摘 要 】

Russell is commonly accused of failing to solve Bradley’s problem of unity. In this paper I argue that the problem doesn’t really pose a distinctively philosophical question; that Russell’s account of unity exposes the problem as unworthy of an answer. I accept that this isn’t a solution, but it does constitute a substantive non-solution! Furthermore, some scholars have read in Russell’s writings a confession of guilt to the effect that he was defeated by the problem of unity: this, I argue, is a misreading of the texts in question.

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