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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 .
Russell had not been nominated for the prize before 1950, making it one of the rare occasions when an author have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year they were first nominated. [6] He was only nominated once by nominator Eugen Tigerstedt (1907–1979), professor of Swedish literature at the University of Helsinki. [7]
Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege have both been associated with the descriptivist theory, which has been called the mediated reference theory or Frege–Russell view. [2] In the 1970s, this theory came under attack from causal theorists such as Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam and others.
History of Western Philosophy [a] is a 1946 book by British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970). A survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratic philosophers to the early 20th century, each major division of the book is prefaced by an account of the historical background necessary to understand the currents of thought it describes. [1]
— 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:
The collection includes essays on the subjects of sociology, ethics and philosophy.In the eponymous essay, Russell displays a series of arguments and reasoning with the aim of stating how the 'belief in the virtue of labour causes great evils in the modern world, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies instead in a diminution of labour' and how work 'is by no means one of the ...
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Op-Ed: The 50-Year Shadow by Joseph Rotblat, New York Times, 17 May 2005. Meeting the Russell–Einstein Challenge to Humanity by David Krieger, October 2004. Pugwash and Russell's Legacy by John R. Lenz. Original audio of Bertrand Russell at the London conference (part I). Original audio of Bertrand Russell at the London conference (part II)