Philosophy of Logical Atomism

…series of articles entitled “Philosophy of Logical Atomism” (1918–19), in which he acknowledged a debt to Wittgenstein, who had studied with Russell before World War I. Wittgenstein’s own version of logical atomism, presented in his difficult work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), was tremendously influential in the subsequent development of analytic…

In “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism,” a monograph published in 1918–19, Russell gave credit to Wittgenstein for supplying “many of the theories” contained in it. Wittgenstein had joined the Austrian army when the war broke out, and Russell had been out of contact with him ever…