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'''''My Philosophical Development''''' is a 1959 book by the philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]], in which the author summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life.<ref>{{citation|title=''My Philosophical Development'' by Bertrand Russell|first=T. V.|last=Smith|journal=Ethics|volume=70|issue=1|year=1959|jstor= 2379632|pages=93–94|doi=10.1086/291259}}.</ref>

==Summary==

Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegelian]] period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science.  He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of [[idealism]] and adoption of a [[mathematical logic]] founded upon that of [[Giuseppe Peano]].  After two chapters on ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' (1910-1913), he passes to the problems of perception as dealt with in ''Our Knowledge of the External World'' (1914).  In a chapter on ‘The Impact of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]]’, Russell examines what he now thinks must be accepted and what rejected in that philosopher's work.  He notes the changes from earlier theories required by the adoption of [[William James|William James's]] view that sensation is not essentially relational and is not per se a form of knowledge. In an explanatory chapter, he endeavors to remove misconceptions of and objections to his theories as to the relation of perception to scientific knowledge. Russell concludes with a reprint of some articles on modern Oxford philosophy.

There is an appendix, "Russell's philosophy", by [[Alan Wood (author)|Alan Wood]].<ref>[https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA29720978 My philosophical development, Bertrand Russell; with an appendix, Russell's philosophy by Alan Wood; Simon and Schuster, 1959], nii.ac.jp, CiNii Research, accessed 5 March 2025</ref>

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