Re: Defending the indefensible: Bertrand Russell

2001-08-09 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, John W. Nichols, M.A. wrote: > (I have been inactive so long that I forgot that I have to "Reply All" > to get this to go to the list. Sorry for adding to your mail queue, > Stephen.) > > Stephen, you have caught something I have noticed is an increasingly > common and rep

Re: Defending the indefensible: Bertrand Russell

2001-08-07 Thread John W. Nichols, M.A.
est be sure to to teach our students the value of checking primary sources, and hope they teach their students the same lesson. Stephen Black wrote: > > Still clearing out my mail queue (down to only 597 at last > count!) I came across a TIPS letter relating to the racist views > of

Defending the indefensible: Bertrand Russell

2001-07-31 Thread Stephen Black
Still clearing out my mail queue (down to only 597 at last count!) I came across a TIPS letter relating to the racist views of Bertrand Russell. Russell (in _Marriage and Morals_, 1929) was quoted as saying: "It seems on the whole fair to regard Negroes as on the average inferior to whit

Re: Bertrand Russell

2000-11-01 Thread Thom Brown
Bertrand Russell, the English philosopher, mathematician, writer, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, has written the following about behaviorists and behavior modification: "The Sentimentalist will say that if you really cared about the sufferings of o

Bertrand Russell

2000-11-01 Thread Michael Sylvester
I am trying to find a place to insert some of the ideas of Bertrand Russell re the History of Psychology. He would fit into the British empiricist tradition (as John Locke), but I have some doubts as to if he was a determinist as would seem appropriate for the Behavioristic and Psychoanalytic

Bertrand Russell

1999-06-20 Thread Anonymous
Hi Y'all, I hope you are all having a good weekend! "John W. Nichols, M.A." wrote: > He was arguing FOR extermination? You are the expert, but the earlier > quote sounded like Russell was arguing against extermination. (It was > the bit about inferiority of Blacks that I suspect was "current