Russell contributed... «Russell: A Very Short Introduction»

Russell contributed voluminously to debates about morals, politics, religion, education, and questions of war and peace. He did not think of these contributions as being in the strict sense philosophical. As the preceding chapter shows, he regarded philosophy as a technical discipline concerned with abstract questions about logic, knowledge, and metaphysics. These other debates, in his opinion, are by contrast matters of emotion and opinion, relating as they do to practicalities of life. He acknowledged that there can be analysis of moral and political discourse in a formal sense, that is, as a systematic study dealing with their logic rather than their substance; but it was practical questions and concrete problems that interested him, especially after the outbreak of the First World War.