An Exploration Of Russell's Analytical Thinking

Bertrand Russell is known as a great philosopher,mathematician,logician,social activist and one of the main founders of analytical philosophy in the 20 th Century.The Analysis of Matter is an important work of Russell,which was published in England in1927.After Russell finished his second work An Essay on the Foundation of Geometry,he turned to the philosophical basis of physics,which he usually called "problem of matters" or "matters".The result of Russell’s thinking on philosophy of physics is concentrated in the book of The Analysis of Matter.According to the book,the logical construction is the key to solving the problem of physics truth.The principle of Occam’s Razor was adopted to discuss about some philosophical concepts from the perspective of ontology.For Russell,physics was just a model of science and solving the problem about the truth of physics is equal to solving the problem about the truth of scientific knowledge.In the book The Analysis of Matter,Russell was focused on the settlement of the problem about the truth of physics based on the deep exploration on the relationship between perception and physics.The problem context of "The Analysis of Matter" is briefly introduced in the first chapter of the paper.The theory of representative philosophers is selected from the three aspects of direct realism,solipsism and phenomenology for problem analysis.The second and third chapters are taken as the core of the paper.The relationship between perception and physics is demonstrated in the second chapter.Events are explained from the perspective of physics in the third chapter.The advantage of Russell’s analytical ideas compared with the previous theory is showed by summarizing and assessing these ideas in the last part.