enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS [7] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics , logic , set theory , and various areas of analytic philosophy .

  3. Philosophical views of Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_views_of...

    Even Russell's biographer, the philosopher Ray Monk, no admirer of Russell's personal snobbery, characterised his work on the philosophy of mathematics as intense, august and incontestably great [23] and acknowledged, in the preface to the second volume of his biography, that he is one of the indisputably great philosophers of the twentieth ...

  4. Alys Pearsall Smith - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alys_Pearsall_Smith

    On 13 December 1894, Smith married Bertrand Russell, son of the Viscount and Viscountess Amberley [2] in the Quaker Meeting House in St. Martin's Lane, London, England. They separated in 1911 and divorced in 1921. [3] According to Russell's autobiography, she was also an intimate friend of Walt Whitman. [4]

  5. Patricia Russell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Russell

    Patricia Russell, Countess Russell (1910 – 2004) was the third wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell and a significant contributor to his book A History of Western Philosophy. [1] Lady Russell was born Marjorie Helen Spence in 1910. As her parents had always wanted a boy, she was known as 'Peter', a nickname she retained throughout her life.

  6. Free Thought and Official Propaganda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official...

    Next, Russell describes incidents in his own life that illustrate the lack of freedom of thought. His father was a Free Thinker (agnostic or atheist), who arranged for three-year-old Bertrand to be raised as a free thinker when he was dying, but the courts overrode this and forced him to be raised Christian.

  7. My Philosophical Development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Philosophical_Development

    Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano.

  8. Political views of Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of...

    Works by Bertrand Russell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Bertrand Russell Audio Archive; In Praise of Idleness free mp3 recitation of Russell's essay of the same name, from the Audio Anarchy project; Other. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Political views of Bertrand Russell", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University ...

  9. Marriage and Morals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_and_Morals

    Marriage and Morals prompted vigorous protests against and denunciations of Russell during his visit to the United States shortly after the book's publication. [2] A decade later, the book, along with his protest against US involvement in World War II and his generally controversial position in public discourse, cost him his professorial appointment at the City College of New York, owing to a ...