Bertrand Russell was the most celebrated English philosopher of this century. His renown stemmed from two distinct sources: his technical philosophical work on logic and the philosophy of mathematics, embodied most famously in The Principles of Mathematics and Principia Mathematica, and his public ...
Bertrand Russell finds himself in purgatory, tumbling through literal representations of the worlds of ideas he examined in his classic text, A History of Western Philosophy, gulping much-needed air, for example, from Empedocles' bucket. Mistaking his erection for a planted flag, he declares the ...
and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. And like the
Books: When Loathing Defeats Logic ; Why Write a Biography of a Figure Whose Work You Despise and Whose Private Life Disgusts You? This Assault on Bertrand Russell as Man and Thinker Is Utterly Misconceived, Argues Frank McLynn; Bertrand Russell, 1921-1970: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Mo...
Life of Thomas Stearns Eliot who was born in America but became naturalised British. He is one of the most influential poets of the Twentieth Century.
Krader returned to City around the time of the scandal over the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a post at CCNY. (For a comprehensive study of the Russell affair, see Weidlich, 2000.) As the winner of the prestigious Ketchum Award in the history of philosophy (it was also awarded in ...
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Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970) Bertrand Russell New Realist popularist wrote History of Western Philosophy Mysticism and Logic An Outline of Philosophy Our Knowledge of the External World Analysis of Matter Reality consists in a plurality of events. Mental events are not distinguishe...
byBertrand Russell, and the ideas ofJohn B. Watson, the founder of behaviourism. After receiving his Ph.D. fromHarvard University(1931), he remained there as a researcher until 1936, when he joined the faculty of theUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he wroteThe Behavior of Organisms...
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