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The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, [1] in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. He introduces philosophy as a repeating series of (failed) attempts to answer the same questions: Can we prove that there is an external world?
The story appears in Bertrand Russell's 1912 The Problems of Philosophy as relating to a chicken: The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
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 .
— Bertrand Russell, Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, pg. 36 Russell made an influential analysis of the omphalos hypothesis enunciated by Philip Henry Gosse —that any argument suggesting that the world was created as if it were already in motion could just as easily make it a few minutes old as a few thousand years:
This paradox is often incorrectly attributed to Bertrand Russell (e.g., by Martin Gardner in Aha!). It was suggested to Russell as an alternative form of Russell's paradox, [1] which Russell had devised to show that set theory as it was used by Georg Cantor and Gottlob Frege contained contradictions. However, Russell denied that the Barber's ...
In 1940, Bertrand Russell was hired by the City College of New York to teach classes on logic, mathematics, and metaphysics of science. This appointment was made controversial by William Thomas Manning, the Episcopal Bishop of New York City, who argued that due to Bertrand Russell's writings against religion and approval of sexual acts disapproved of by traditional Christian teachings, he ...
The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and its publishing imprint Spokesman Books [8] began work in 1963 to carry forward Russell's work for peace, human rights and social justice. Russell criticised the official account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in " 16 Questions on the Assassination ", 1964. [ 9 ]
"Free Thought and Official Propaganda" is a speech (and subsequent publication) delivered in 1922 by Bertrand Russell on the importance of unrestricted freedom of expression in society, and the problem of the state and political class interfering in this through control of education, fines, economic leverage, and distortion of evidence.