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Fifteen Lectures by Bertrand Russell on The Analysis of Mind

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Published in 1921, the book is a collection of lectures Russell gave in England and China. Russell says here he favors James and the American new realists, "according to which the 'stuff' of the world is neither mental nor material, but a 'neutral stuff,' out of which both are constructed." In the present volume, Russell applies that formula to the "mind." The book will seem dated to some, but the present confusion about the nature of the mind may suggest Lord Russell's analysis forsaw --with his inimitable clarity of expression -- many of the views now being debated, including mind-body dualisms, the various monisms, the global supervenience thesis, functionalism, central notions of cognitive psychology, and the status of consciousness (the subject of Russell's Lecture I). Highly recommended.