Gregory Landini 
Repairing Bertrand Russell’s 1913 Theory of Knowledge [PDF ebook] 

This book repairs and revives the
Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell’s
Principia era. Chapter 1, ‘Introduction and Overview’, explains the program’s agenda. Inspired by the non-Fregean logicism of
Principia Mathematica,  it endorses the revolution within mathematics presenting it as a study of relations. The synthetic a
priori logic of
Principia is the essence of philosophy considered as a science which exposes the dogmatisms about abstract particulars and metaphysical necessities that create prisons that fetter the mind. Incipient in
The 
Problems of Philosophy, the program’s acquaintance epistemology embraced a multiple-relation theory of belief. It reached an impasse in 1913, having been itself retrofitted with abstract particular
logical forms to address problems of 
direction and compositionality. With its acquaintance epistemology in limbo,  
Scientific Method in Philosophy became the sequel to
Problems. Chapter 2 explains Russell’s feeling intellectually dishonest. Wittgenstein’s demand that
logic exclude nonsense belief played no role. The 1919
neutral monist era ensued, but Russell found no epistemology for the logic essential to philosophy. Repairing,  Chapters 4–6 solve the impasse. Reviving, Chapters 3 and 7 vigorously defend the facts about
Principia. Studies of modality and entailment are viable while 
Principia remains a
universal logic above the civil wars of the metaphysicians.

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