The Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. It was established in 1896...
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The aspects of Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy cover the changing viewpoints of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), from...
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and public...
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Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon...
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Aspects of philosopher, mathematician and social activist Bertrand Russell's views on society changed over nearly 80 years of prolific writing, beginning...
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Alexander Bird (category Bertrand Russell Professors of Philosophy)
and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy...
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logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell...
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Moore and Bertrand Russell, were brought up in this tradition and then reacted against it by pioneering analytic philosophy. Analytic philosophy was based...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (redirect from Wittgensteinian philosophy)
Read and Hans Sluga on Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy". YouTube. Monk 1990, p. 471. Russell, Bertrand (1959). My Philosophical Development. New York:...
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theory of descriptions is the philosopher Bertrand Russell's most significant contribution to the philosophy of language. It is also known as Russell's theory...
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Logical atomism (category Bertrand Russell)
in translation as "Analytic Realism" in Volume 6 of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell). Russell was developing and responding to what he called...
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This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted...
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professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis is on the exposition of his ideas and depicts his characteristics...
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Why I Am Not a Christian (category Essays by Bertrand Russell)
philosopher Bertrand Russell. Originally a talk given on 6 March 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National...
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Scientific temper (category Bertrand Russell)
outcome of exact science." In his Conway Memorial Lecture in 1922, Bertrand Russell used the example of Albert Einstein to explain the meaning of scientific...
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Frederick Copleston (category English historians of philosophy)
existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (redirect from Philosophy of Hegel)
ontology, to political philosophy, the philosophy of history, philosophy of art, philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart...
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John E. Thomas (category Academic staff of McMaster University)
University of Toronto Press "THOMAS, John E." lifenews.ca. Retrieved 9 June 2015. "Bertrand Russell". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics...
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philosophy. Early analytical philosophy, represented by Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore, was very critical of the tradition of German-origin, Hegelian-oriented...
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Immanuel Kant (redirect from Kant’s moral philosophy)
as intuitionism, a movement in philosophy of mathematics opposed to Hilbert's formalism, and Frege and Bertrand Russell's logicism. With his Perpetual Peace...
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Henri Bergson (redirect from The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)
Generations of Greek Writers, Published by Efstathiadis Group, Athens, 1983 see his short book Russell, Bertrand (1977). The philosophy of Bergson. Folcroft...
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Saul Kripke (category Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts)
causal theory of reference, disputing the descriptivist theory found in Gottlob Frege's concept of sense and Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions...
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Pekka Himanen (category Academic staff of the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture)
with his thesis on the philosophy of religion, The challenge of Bertrand Russell, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university, breaking...
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David Chalmers (category Philosophy writers)
University.[citation needed] Chalmers accepted a part-time professorship at the philosophy department of New York University in 2009, becoming a full-time professor...
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Arthur David Ritchie (category Alumni of the University of St Andrews)
(1937), p.87 Bertrand Russell, Essays on language, mind, and matter, 1919-26, Unwin Hyman, 1988, p.259 Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal...
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Existentialism (redirect from Philosophy of existence)
disciplines outside of philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature, and psychology. Existentialist philosophy encompasses a range of perspectives...
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Giuseppe Peano (category Knights of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus)
interests for the rest of his life. At the conference, Peano met Bertrand Russell and gave him a copy of Formulario. Russell was struck by Peano's innovative...
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Patricia Churchland (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
in Princeton. In 1984, she was invited to take up a professorship in the department of philosophy at UCSD, and relocated there with her husband Paul,...
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G. H. Hardy (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
take the Savilian Chair of Geometry (and thus become a Fellow of New College) at Oxford in the aftermath of the Bertrand Russell affair during World War...
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Henry Sidgwick (category Scholars of feminist philosophy)
Moral Science. While at Cambridge Sidgwick taught a young Bertrand Russell. A 2004 biography of Sidgwick by Bart Schultz sought to establish that Sidgwick...
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