Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinio

n now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Including 4 marriages, a slew of

awards. and controversies--- The
life of Bertrand Russell can
certainly be described as full and
wondrous!

A Brief Timeline
1872 1874 187 1894
189 1901 1916Discove 1918
Complete 4
6
Born in 1876 Grand s Moral
Fined &
Marrie rs
Russell
Sciences
Wales

Death
of
mother,
sister &
father

1921 1927
Divorce s Alys
1931
&

Opens
marries experim
Dora
e-ntal

Black.

parent
s get
Tripos (II)
custo
dy

s Alys
Pearsa
ll
Smith

s
Parado
x

imprisoned
for antiwar
protests.

1935 1940
194 1949 1950
Appointme 3
Awarde Awarded
Nobel
1936 nt to NY
Dismiss d the
city college
Divorc revoked
es
due to
Dora. public

-ed
from
Barnes
Founda

Order of Prize for

Merit.
literature.

Timeline Continued
1952

1955

Divorce from P. Releases

Spence and
Russell-Einstein
married to Edith Manifesto
Finch.

1958
Becomes the
President of the
Campaign for
Nuclear
Disarmament

1961
Imprisoned for
connection to
antinuclear
protests.

1957
Organizes the
first Pugwash
Conference

1970
Died February
2nd in Wales.

Who is Bertrand Russell?

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher,
logician, essayist and social critic.

He also did a lot of work in the

areas of education, history,
political theory and religious

Bertrand: The Philosopher

Along with G.E. Moore, Russell is

generally recognized as one of the
founders of analytic philosophy.

His most influential contributions

include his defense of logicism (the
view that mathematics is in some
important sense reducible to logic),
and his theories of definite descriptions
and logical atomism.

Russells Paradox
Russell's paradox is the most famous
of the logical paradoxes.

The paradox arises by considering the set

of all sets that are not members of
themselves. Such a set appears to be a
member of itself if and only if it is not a
member of itself, hence the paradox.

WHAT?!
To try and explain this theory thats important to
many logicians:

Some sets, such as the set of all teacups, are

not members of themselves. Other sets, such
as the set of all non-teacups, are members of
themselves.
Call the set of all sets that are not members of
themselves "R." If R is a member of itself, then
by definition it must not be a member of itself.
Similarly, if R is not a member of itself, then
by definition it must be a member of itself.

In a statement:
Basically, hes saying that all sentences
follow from a contradiction.

Russells Defense of Logicism

Russell states that:

The vocabulary of mathematics is a
proper subset of Logic.
And!
The theorums of mathematics are
subsets of logical ones.

Best-Selling Books

Gives Russell's views on

philosophical subjects
and value of philosophical
knowledge.

1912

Best-Selling Books
Arguably outdated,
this book gives a
general history of
philosophy.
1945

Russell: The Activist

Although Bertrand Russell is famous in
activist circles for his work against
nuclear weapons and Western
involvement in the Vietnam War,
His social and political activism
stretches far beyond that

The Experimental School

Along with his second wife, Russell
opened an experimental school. He
believed education was key to
conveying his social beliefs.

Dora Black

In the part of this universe that we know there is gr

eat injustice, and often the good suffer, and often t
he wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of thos
e is the more annoying.
Bertrand Russell

The Rebel
Russell was convicted twice and spent 6
months in prison due to his protests.

He was dismissed from one college and

had a job offer revoked from another
for similar reasons.

Religion
Russell s books are notoriously
blasphemous. He implies that religion is a
comfort we seek to excuse our terrible
acts. His message is that we should take
responsibility for our own actions.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Go

spels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my l

ife I have been searching for evidence which could supp
rt this.
Bertrand Russell

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Bibliography

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/
Bertrand_Russell
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russellparadox/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
http://images.search.yahoo.com/

By Barry Briggs Jr.

(Bertrand)