Bertrand Russell

I first read Russell when I was nine: my parents had copies of his books in the old Simon and Schuster editions, with the attractive abstract covers, which were left on a low shelf near the science fiction. Furthermore, the back cover blurbs quoted Russell himself on how he wrote Human Knowledge so it could be understood by "an unusually bright child of ten." I neither could nor did resist the temptation, and was thoroughly imprinted. I have recently noticed that Nietzsche and Althusser live on the same shelf in my parents' home: and what might have happened, if their books had had more interesting-looking exteriors, is not pleasant to contemplate. There, but for the grace of some long-forgotten cover designer, go I...

See my on-line collection of Russell's writings.

The Analysis of Matter
A History of Western Philosophy
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901--1950
Our Knowledge of the External World
Whitehead and Russell, Principia Mathematica [I've read all of the abridgement, "to *56" of the second edition, plus the stuff about relation-numbers and abstract structure in vol. II. Scanned images of the full text of all three volumes of the first edition are available via the University of Michigan: I, II, III.]

Sceptical Essays
In Praise of Idleness
Unpopular Essays
Why I Am Not a Christian
Icarus, or, the Future of Science
The Impact of Science on Society
Authority and the Individual
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism [Full text via Project Gutenberg]
Freedom and Organization, 1814--1914
Human Society in Ethics and Politics
My Philosophical Development
Autobiography

Kenneth Blackwell, The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell
Richard F. Kitchener, "Bertrand Russell's Naturalistic Epistemology", Philosophy 82 (2007): 115--146

Peter H. Denton, The ABC of Armageddon: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion, and the Next War, 1919--1938
Philip Ironside, The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell: The Development of an Aristocratic Liberalism [blurb]
W. C. Lubenow, The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life
Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, 1872--1921
BR, The Analysis of Mind [Full text via Project Gutenberg]
BR, Inquiry into Meaning and Truth

Notebooks

Bertrand Russell