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The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell

Edited by
Russell Wahl

Contents

I would like to acknowledge especially the work of the contributors to the book. I benefited a lot from reading their work and from discussions with them. My reviewing of two of the chapters was helped very much by James Skidmore and Pamela Park, who also helped with the bibliography. Chris Pincock kindly reviewed one of my own chapters. Some of the contributors adjusted their topics, some were added late, and some dropped out of the project. All of the contributors have shown patience during this time. I regret that after some pulled out there was only one woman philosopher contributing to the book.

The work on my own chapters was facilitated by McMaster University during my time as the Bertrand Russell Visiting Professor and by a sabbatical leave granted by Idaho State University during spring semester, 2013. I would also like to thank Kenneth Blackwell for the help he has provided to me and the other contributors over the years.

Nicholas Griffin

Department of Philosophy

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Kevin C. Klement

Department of Philosophy

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA, USA

Gregory Landini

Department of Philosophy

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA, USA

James Levine

Department of Philosophy

Trinity College

Dublin, Ireland

Bernard Linsky

Department of Philosophy

University of Alberta

Edmonton, AL, Canada

Cheryl Misak

Department of Philosophy

University of Toronto

Toronto, ON, Canada

Dustin Olson

Department of Philosophy

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY, USA

Ray Perkins, Jr.

Department of Philosophy

Plymouth State University

Plymouth, NH, USA

Christopher Pincock

Department of Philosophy

Ohio State University

Columbus, OH, USA

Franois Schmitz

Dpartement Philosophie

Universit de Nantes

Nantes, France

Graham Stevens

Department of Philosophy

University of Manchester

Manchester, UK

Peter Stone

Department of Political Science

Trinity College

Dublin, Ireland

Russell Wahl

Department of English and Philosophy

Idaho State University

Pocatello, ID, USA

Donovan Wishon

Department of Philosophy

University of Mississippi

Oxford, MS, USA