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).