In a discussion on philosophy, Bertrand Russell defines philosophy as speculation about matters beyond current scientific knowledge. He contrasts philosophy with science, stating that while ...

Bertrand Russell, for example, remains a towering reminder of intellectual bravery. Such clarity, ... Not only did he start ...

COMMENTARY: Bertrand Russell may have been a great philosopher, but he doesn’t seem to have been deeply reflective. Bertrand Russell poses for a portrait on Nov. 28, 1957. (photo: Anefo ...

We are used to thinking of idleness as a vice, something to be ashamed of. But when the British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote “In Praise of Idleness” in 1932, at the height of the Great ...

Russell had enjoyed a healthy American readership since before the First World War and was a regular traveller to the United States from his earliest visit in 1896 until his last in 1951.

Bertrand Russell, ‘Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy’ (various editions and publishers) Bertrand Russell, ‘My Philosophical Development ...

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born on 18 May 1872, at Ravenscroft (now Cleddon Hall) in Trellech, Monmouthshire. He was born into nobility; his paternal grandfather, John Russell, the first ...