Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies

russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 33 (winter 2013–14): 99–100 The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn 0036–01631; online 1913–8032 c:\users\kenneth\documents\type3302\rj 33,2 113 red.docx 2014-01-15 10:04 bditor’s kotes¶michael d. stevenson is Assistant Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Orillia campus of Lakehead University, Ontario. In addition to his involvement with the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, of which he had undertaken the editorship of Volume 22, The CCNY Case, 1938–41, he specializes in Canadian diplomatic and business history. bernard linsky coedited (with Nicholas Griffin) The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica (2013). His paper “Leonard Linsky, Russell and Meinong”, forthcoming in the Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin, is part of a “long-standing family project” to understand “On Denoting ”. i. grattan-guinness is Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic at Middlesex University and a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics. He continues to work on the history and philosophy of set theory and logic. ray perkins, jr. is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Plymouth State University. He is Vice-President of the Bertrand Russell Society, from which he received the 2002 Book Award for his Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell. andrew g. bone is Senior Research Associate at the Russell Research Centre. He obtained a phd in modern British history from McMaster. He edited Collected Papers 28 and 29 and coedited 21. He is working on 26 and 27, covering part of the early cold war, and collaboratively on 16. your editor continues his work on Papers 24 and 25. Quotations from these two volumes may be viewed at https://russell.mcmaster. ca/v24quote.htm and …/v25quote.htm—a revamped, expanded cpbr site.¶An excellent read for the Russellian side of World War 1 is Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars: a Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 (2011). He has made use of the relevant Collected Papers and unpublished archives elsewhere and follows several characters to dramatize the story. Hochschild told the History News Network that he has admired Russell’s anti-war bravery since about 1960.¶Gülberk Koç MacLean’s Bertrand Russell’s BundleTheory of Particulars is expected from Bloomsbury Academic in May 2014. Bernard Linsky and DonovanWishon, eds., Acquaintance , Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy (csli), and Rosalind Carey’s Russell on Meaning:the Rise of Scientific Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan), are due in 2014. Torin Alter andYujin Nagasawa , eds., Russellian Monism (Oxford U. P.), and Piotr Stalmaszczyk, ed., Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: the Legacy of Frege, Russell, andWittgenstein (de Gruyter), are also due this year. contributors forthcoming books 1914–18 centenary 100 Editor’s Notes c:\users\kenneth\documents\type3302\rj 33,2 113 red.docx 2014-01-15 10:04¶Palgrave Macmillan has brought out Jolen Galaugher’s Russell’s Philosophy of Logical Analysis and The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica, edited by Griffin and Linsky. Christian Mueller-Goldingen has published Bertrand Russell: Studien zu seinem philosophischen Werk (lit Verlag). Toward “Principia Mathematica”, 1905–08, Volume 5 of the Collected Papers, was published by Routledge in January 2014. Six pre-1923 books comprise Bertrand Russell Collection (Oxford City P.). The editions used are not indicated. The few indexes are repaginated.¶In the new text by Russell in this issue he claims that determinism is ethically irrelevant. That’s not how he viewed it for the bbc at the end of his life in talking about Spinoza’s influence: “You see, Spinoza’s contention is that everything is determined and that it’s absurd to find fault with a man for anything he does because he is bound to do that; whatever he does he’s bound to do; and it teaches you tolerance , it teaches you to view actions that seem to you obviously absurd as inevitable; like a thunderstorm” (my Spinozistic Ethics of Russell, p. 22). Is this an inconsistency, just an elaboration, or perhaps a change of view?¶The Russell Archives were given the originals of thirteen letters from Russell to Ralph and...