The Art of Philosophizing and Other Essays
by Bertrand Russell
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The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art of reckoning" in the fields of mathematics, logic and philosophy. The simplicity of Russell's exposition is astonishing, as is his ability to get to the core of the great philosophical issues and to skillfully probe
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly show more credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Haldeman-Julius "How To" (7-9)
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- Canonical title
- The Art of Philosophizing and Other Essays
- Original title
- How to Become Philosopher… Logician... Mathematician
- Original publication date
- 1942; 1968
- First words
- Let us begin with a few words as to what philosophy is.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- Three essays - "The Art of Rational Conjecture", "The Art of Drawing Inferences" and "The Art of Reckoning" - first published by Haldeman-Julius in 1942 as part of his "How To" series. Reprinted by Philosophical Library in 19... (show all)68 under the somewhat misleading title The Art of Philosophizing and Other Essays.
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