A Study Of Russell 's Logical Atomicism

The early research about philosophy of science was focus on the epistemology. The philosophy of logical atomism is thought to the first driving force of epistemological philosophy in the20th century. One hand, logical atomism philosophical analysis of the internal realism argues about the characteristics of mathematical philosophy. On the other hand, it provided a model which used the method of logical analysis to study philosophy in the20th century and helped the formation and development of analytical philosophy. At the same time, it has a very profound influence for the "linguistic turn" in philosophical question. Russell’s logical atomism is a transition from classical philosophy to modern philosophy. It kept a lot of classical philosophy views and added many new philosophical elements, such as mathematics, logic, theology, and some ideas of linguistics and psychology. We can find that Russell’s philosophy of logical atomism is still has the features about British empiricist. It is a kind of logical ontology theory. The analysis of facts and propositions and logical structure of some basic philosophical problems solved some controversial philosophical question, dispute and paradox. The logical empiricism philosophy later has some similar factors with it. Logical atomism philosophy is the core of Russell’s philosophy. Although Russell always struggled in the conflict and contradiction even denied his front theory, a kind of spirit temperament inside and research methods outside played a very important role in philosophy world. Russell admitted that the philosophy of logical atomism glitters his best wisdom in his later years. Russell is called the philosopher of all philosophy and his understanding of philosophy had achieved a rare realm. In his view, the significance of philosophy is that there are more things we can not understand. The only difference between philosophy and science is that that science is what you more or less know and philosophy is what you do not know. Philosophy is that the part of science which at present people choose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had. The charm of philosophy consists in the speculative freedom.