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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 |
| | |
| |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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