His paternal grandfather, Lord John Russell, later 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), had twice been prime minister in the 1840s and 1860s. Mill died the year after Russell's birth, but his writings had a great effect on Russell's life. Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather. Both were early advocates of birth control at a time when this was considered scandalous. Lord Amberley consented to his wife's affair with their children's tutor, the biologist Douglas Spalding. His parents, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, were radical for their times. He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963).īiography Early life and background īertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, Trellech, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom, on, into an influential and liberal family of the British aristocracy. 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". He would later criticize Stalinist totalitarianism, condemn the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War and become an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In the wake of World War II, he welcomed American global hegemony in favour of either Soviet hegemony or no (or ineffective) world leadership, even if it were to come at the cost of using their nuclear weapons. He went to prison for his pacifism during World War I, but also saw the war against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany as a necessary "lesser of two evils". Russell was a pacifist who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League. Russell's article " On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy". Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic, and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism". Moore and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians, and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Set-theoretic definition of natural numbersīertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS ( – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual.Russellian view (Russell's critique of Meinong's theory of objects).
Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.Criticism of the doctrine of internal relations/ logical holism.Criticism of the coherence theory of truth.
0 kommentar(er)
