Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate
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Why is this person notable and influential?From Wikipedia
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Throughout his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, although he also sometimes suggested that his sceptical nature had led him to feel that he had “never been any of these things, in any profound sense”. Russell was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.
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Schools
What schools is this person affiliated with?Harvard University
Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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University of California, Los Angeles
Public research university in Los Angeles, California, United States
view profileNotable Works
What contributions to academia has this person made?- The Conquest of Happiness
- Sceptical Essays
- Power: A New Social Analysis
- Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
- Why Men Fight
- Why I Am Not a Christian
- The Problems of Philosophy
- The Principles of Mathematics
- Religion and Science
- Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism
- Proposed Roads to Freedom
- Political Ideals
- Our Knowledge of the External World
- Marriage and Morals
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy