name: Bertrand Russell
birth_date: 1872-05-18 00:00:00
death_date: 1970-02-02 00:00:00
genres: History, Philosophy, Social Sciences
influences: David Hume, G.E. Moore, E. Haldeman-Julius, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Albert Einstein, Robert Ingersoll, Giuseppe Peano, Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Sanders Peirce, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Gottlob Frege, John Stuart Mill, Thales, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Paine
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about: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." ...more