Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 in Wales into an aristocratic family; his grandfather, Lord John Russell, had twice been prime minister. Orphaned young, he was raised by his grandmother and educated at home before studying mathematics and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. With Alfred North Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), which tried to base mathematics on logic, and he helped found the tradition of analytic philosophy. The Problems of Philosophy (1912) is a short introduction for general readers. A pacifist during the First World War, he lost his Cambridge lectureship and was imprisoned for six months in 1918 for an article opposing the war. He wrote on education, marriage, religion and politics, ran an experimental school with his wife Dora, and published A History of Western Philosophy (1945). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950. In later life he campaigned against nuclear weapons. He died in Wales in 1970, aged 97.

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Faith: An agnostic who, in public, was known for his outspoken atheism. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy