Two Reviews of Meinong [1906–07]

These two reviews (28a and 28b) were published in Mind, n.s. 15 (July 1906): 412-15 (B&R C06.11) and n.s. 16 (July 1907): 436-9 (B&R C07.07). Russell had long been acquainted with the work of Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), an Austrian psychologist and philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1882 until his death. Russell first wrote about Meinong’s work in a review (1899b), also in Mind, of the latter’s book Ueber die Bedeutung des Weber’schen Gesetzes (1896). He continued to have a very high opinion of this book, describing it in the Principles of Mathematics as “one from which I have learnt so much, and with which I so largely agree, that it seems desirable to justify myself on the points in which I depart from it” (1903, 168).