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|Name |Bertrand Russell |

|Information |Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a |

| |British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life, he imagined himself |

| |in turn a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound|

| |sense. Though he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97. |

| |Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic along |

| |with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's |

| |premier logicians. He co-authored, with Whitehead, Principia, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay|

| |"On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." His work has had a considerable influence on logic, |

| |mathematics, set theory, linguistics, and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. |

| |Russell was a prominent anti-war activist; he championed free trade and anti-imperialism. Russell went to prison for his |

| |pacifist activism during World War I. Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticised Stalinist totalitarianism, |

| |attacked the United States of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and finally became an outspoken proponent of nuclear |

| |disarmament. |

| |In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he |

| |champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." |

| |Era |

| |20th century philosophy |

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| |Region |

| |Western philosophy |

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| |School |

| |Analytic philosophy |

| |Nobel Prize in Literature |

| |1950 |

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| |Main interests |

| |Metaphysics, epistemology, logic, mathematics, philosophy of language, science, ethics, religion, history |

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