Sander Verhaegh

External Relations: Russell, New Realism, and the Harvard School of Logic

This paper reconstructs the development of the ‘Harvard school of logic’ (e.g., Josiah Royce, H. M. Sheffer, C. I. Lewis, A. N. Whitehead, Susanne Langer, and W. V. Quine), highlighting the impact of Bertrand Russell’s period at Harvard in the spring of 1914. I trace and contextualize Russell’s influence on Harvard’s D...