The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy

In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions.

STEWART CANDLISH is Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.