Bertrand Russell e la filosofia dell'atomismo logico

Abstract

1903 was a particularly significant year for the history of European culture, both in term of the history of scientific thought and the history of philosophical thought. At Trinity College in Cambridge, George Edward Moore published the article The Refutation of Idealism in «Mind» magazine, while Bertrand Russell published The Principles of Mathematics. With these two works, besides discarding the mainstream neo-idealism in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century, Moore and Russell promoted the new current of neo-positivism, from which logical empiricism and the socalled “scientific philosophy” was to be derived and cultivated within the Vienna Circle and the Berlin Circle.