Bertrand Russell1872-1970

B. Russell sprouts

• Born into a liberal and influential family of the British aristocracy

• Often contemplated suicide• Educated by tutors

Pembroke Lodge

Early career• Taught German Social

Democracy at the London School of Economics

• Russell's paradox• The Principles of Mathematics

• Principia Mathematica

Beacon Hill School

• Experimental• Founded with his wife• Run from different locations• His wife continued it after he left

five years later

Family life

• Married four times• Had three children• He and his wife eventually

became the legal guardians of three of his granddaughters

Political causes• Pacifist activist during World War

I• Convicted under the Defence of

the Realm Act• Leeds Convention

• Imprisoned for six months for lecturing against inviting the U.S. to join the war on Britain's side

• Jailed for seven days for being in an anti-nuclear demonstration in London at the age of 89

Death

• Died of influenza in 1970• No religious ceremony• Ashes scattered over the Welsh

mountains

Analytic philosophy

• Favored clarity in arguments• Did not think there should be separate methods for

philosophy• Occam's Razor

Russell's teapot

• Burden of proof• Teapot orbiting around the sun between Earth and Mars

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