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Russell subsequently lectured in Beijing on philosophy for one year, accompanied by Dora. While in China, Russell became gravely ill with pneumonia, and incorrect reports of his death were published in the Japanese press. When the couple visited Japan on their return journey, Dora notified journalists that "Mr Bertrand Russell, having died according to the Japanese press, is unable to give interviews to Japanese journalists".

On the couple's return to England in , Dora was five months pregnant, and Russell arranged a hasty divorce from Alys, marrying Dora six days after the divorce was finalised. Russell supported himself during this time by writing popular books explaining matters of physics, ethics and education to the layman.

Together with Dora, he also founded the experimental Beacon Hill School in After he left the school in , Dora continued it until Upon the death of his elder brother Frank, in , Russell became the 3rd Earl Russell.

He once said that his title was primarily useful for securing hotel rooms. Russell's marriage to Dora grew increasingly tenuous, and it reached a breaking point over her having two children with an American journalist, Griffin Barry. In , he took as his third wife an Oxford undergraduate named Patricia "Peter" Spence, who had been his children's governess since the summer of Russell and Peter had one son, Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, later to become a prominent historian, and one of the leading figures in the Liberal Democrat party.

He was appointed professor at the City College of New York in , but after a public outcry the appointment was annulled by a court judgement: his opinions especially those relating to sexual morality, detailed in Marriage and Morals ten years earlier made him "morally unfit" to teach at the college. The protest was started by the mother of a student who as a woman would not have been eligible for his graduate-level course in mathematical logic.

Many intellectuals, led by John Dewey, protested his treatment. Dewey and Horace M. He soon joined the Barnes Foundation, lecturing to a varied audience on the history of philosophy - these lectures formed the basis of A History of Western Philosophy. His relationship with the eccentric Albert C. Barnes soon soured, and he returned to Britain in to rejoin the faculty of Trinity College.

During the s and s, Russell participated in many broadcasts over the BBC on various topical and philosophical subjects. By this time in his life, Russell was world famous outside of academic circles, frequently the subject or author of magazine and newspaper articles, and was called upon to offer up opinions on a wide variety of subjects, even mundane ones.

En route to one of his lectures in Trondheim, Russell survived a plane crash in October A History of Western Philosophy became a best-seller, and provided Russell with a steady income for the remainder of his life. Along with his friend Albert Einstein, Russell had reached superstar status as an intellectual. In , Russell was divorced by Peter, with whom he had been very unhappy. Conrad, Russell's son by Peter, did not see his father between the time of the divorce and at which time his decision to meet his father caused a permanent breach with his mother.

Russell married his fourth wife, Edith Finch, soon after the divorce, in December They had known each other since , and Edith had lectured English at Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sharing a house for twenty years with Russell's old friend Lucy Donnelly. Edith remained with him until his death, and, by all accounts, their relationship was close and loving throughout their marriage.

Russell's eldest son, John, suffered from serious mental illness, which was the source of ongoing disputes between Russell and John's mother, Russell's former wife, Dora.

John's wife Susan was also mentally ill, and eventually Russell and Edith became the legal guardians of their three daughters two of whom were later diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Russell spent the s and s engaged in various political causes, primarily related to nuclear disarmament and opposing the Vietnam War. He wrote a great many letters to world leaders during this period. He also became a hero to many of the youthful members of the New Left.

During the s, in particular, Russell became increasingly vocal about his disapproval of the American government's policies. In he became the inaugural recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, an award for writers concerned with the freedom of the individual in society. Bertrand Russell published his three-volume autobiography in , and in , which was the final volume.

Whilst he grew frail, he remained lucid until the end. On 31 January he condemned what he saw as the "Israel aggression in the Middle East", saying that "We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horror of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy". Bertrand Russell died at 6.

He had previously fought that illness off in late December His ashes, as his will directed, were scattered after his cremation three days later.

Russell is generally recognised as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, even of its several branches. At the beginning of the 20th century, alongside G. Moore, Russell was largely responsible for the British "revolt against Idealism", a philosophy greatly influenced by Georg Hegel and his British apostle, F. This revolt was echoed 30 years later in Vienna by the logical positivists' "revolt against metaphysics". Russell was particularly critical of a doctrine he ascribed to idealism and coherentism, this he dubbed the doctrine of internal relations, which, Russell suggested, held that in order to know any particular thing, we must know all of its relations.

Based on this Russell attempted to show that this would make space, time, science and the concept of number not fully intelligible.

Russell's logical work with Whitehead continued this project. Russell and Moore strove to eliminate what they saw as meaningless and incoherent assertions in philosophy, and they sought clarity and precision in argument by the use of exact language and by breaking down philosophical propositions into their simplest grammatical components.

Russell, in particular, saw formal logic and science as the principal tools of the philosopher. Indeed, unlike most philosophers who preceded him and his early contemporaries, Russell did not believe there was a separate method for philosophy. He believed that the main task of the philosopher was to illuminate the most general propositions about the world and to eliminate confusion. In particular, he wanted to end what he saw as the excesses of metaphysics.

Russell adopted William of Ockham's principle against multiplying unnecessary entities, Occam's Razor, as a central part of the method of analysis. Russell had great influence on modern mathematical logic. The American philosopher and logician Willard Quine said Russell's work represented the greatest influence on his own work.

Russell's first mathematical book, An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry , was published in This work was heavily influenced by Immanuel Kant. Russell soon realised that the conception it laid out would have made Albert Einstein's schema of space-time impossible, which he understood to be superior to his own system.

Thenceforth, he rejected the entire Kantian program as it related to mathematics and geometry, and he maintained that his own earliest work on the subject was nearly without value. He became convinced that the foundations of mathematics were to be found in logic, and following Gottlob Frege took an extensionalist approach in which logic was in turn based upon set theory.

In he attended the first International Congress of Philosophy in Paris where he became familiar with the work of the Italian mathematician, Giuseppe Peano. He mastered Peano's new symbolism and his set of axioms for arithmetic. Peano defined logically all of the terms of these axioms with the exception of 0 , number , successor , and the singular term, the , which were the primitives of his system. Russell took it upon himself to find logical definitions for each of these.

Russell eventually discovered that Gottlob Frege had independently arrived at equivalent definitions for 0 , successor , and number , and the definition of number is now usually referred to as the Frege-Russell definition.

It was largely Russell who brought Frege to the attention of the English-speaking world. He did this in , when he published The Principles of Mathematics , in which the concept of class is inextricably tied to the definition of number.

The appendix to this work detailed a paradox arising in Frege's application of second- and higher-order functions which took first-order functions as their arguments, and he offered his first effort to resolve what would henceforth come to be known as the Russell Paradox.

Before writing Principles , Russell became aware of Cantor's proof that there was no greatest cardinal number, which Russell believed was mistaken. The Cantor Paradox in turn was shown for example by Crossley to be a special case of the Russell Paradox.

This caused Russell to analyze classes, for it was known that given any number of elements, the number of classes they result in is greater than their number. In turn, this led to the discovery of a very interesting class, namely, the class of all classes, which consists of two kinds of classes: classes that are members of themselves, and classes that are not members of themselves, which led him to find that the so-called principle of comprehension, taken for granted by logicians of the time, was fatally flawed, and that it resulted in a contradiction, whereby Y is a member of Y, if and only if, Y is not a member of Y.

This has become known as Russell's paradox, the solution to which he outlined in an appendix to Principles , and which he later developed into a complete theory, the Theory of types. Aside from exposing a major inconsistency in naive set theory, Russell's work led directly to the creation of modern axiomatic set theory. It also crippled Frege's project of reducing arithmetic to logic.

The Theory of Types and much of Russell's subsequent work have also found practical applications with computer science and information technology. Russell continued to defend logicism, the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic, and along with his former teacher, Alfred North Whitehead, wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica , an axiomatic system on which all of mathematics can be built.

The first volume of the Principia was published in , and is largely ascribed to Russell. More than any other single work, it established the specialty of mathematical or symbolic logic. Two more volumes were published, but their original plan to incorporate geometry in a fourth volume was never realised, and Russell never felt up to improving the original works, though he referenced new developments and problems in his preface to the second edition.

Upon completing the Principia , three volumes of extraordinarily abstract and complex reasoning, Russell was exhausted, and he never felt his intellectual faculties fully recovered from the effort. Russell's last significant work in mathematics and logic, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy , was written by hand while he was in jail for his anti-war activities during World War I.

This was largely an explication of his previous work and its philosophical significance. Russell was not the first philosopher to suggest that language had an important bearing on how we understand the world; however, more than anyone before him, Russell made language, or more specifically, how we use language , a central part of philosophy.

Austin, and P. Strawson, among others, would have embarked upon the same course, for so much of what they did was to amplify or respond, sometimes critically, to what Russell had said before them, using many of the techniques that he originally developed.

Russell, along with Moore, shared the idea that clarity of expression is a virtue, a notion that has been a touchstone for philosophers ever since, particularly among those who deal with the philosophy of language.

Perhaps Russell's most significant contribution to philosophy of language is his theory of descriptions, as presented in his seminal essay, On Denoting , first published in in the Mind philosophical journal, which the mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey described as "a paradigm of philosophy. Roughly the same problem would arise if there were two kings of France at present: which of them does " the king of France" denote?

Alexius Meinong had suggested that we must posit a realm of "nonexistent entities" that we can suppose we are referring to when we use expressions such as this; but this would be a strange theory, to say the least. Frege, employing his distinction between sense and reference, suggested that such sentences, although meaningful, were neither true nor false.

But some such propositions, such as " If the present king of France is bald, then the present king of France has no hair on his head," seem not only truth-valuable but indeed obviously true. The problem is general to what are called "definite descriptions. What is the "logical form" of definite descriptions: how, in Frege's terms, could we paraphrase them in order to show how the truth of the whole depends on the truths of the parts?

Definite descriptions appear to be like names that by their very nature denote exactly one thing, neither more or less. What, then, are we to say about the proposition as a whole if one of its parts apparently isn't functioning correctly? Russell's solution was, first of all, to analyze not the term alone but the entire proposition that contained a definite description.

The proposition as a whole then says three things about some object: the definite description contains two of them, and the rest of the sentence contains the other. If the object does not exist, or if it is not unique, then the whole sentence turns out to be false, not meaningless. One of the major complaints against Russell's theory, due originally to Strawson, is that definite descriptions do not claim that their object exists, they merely presuppose that it does. Strawson also claims that a denoting phrase that does not, in fact, denote anything could be supposed to follow the role of a "Widgy's inverted truth-value" and expresses the opposite meaning of the intended phrase.

This can be shown using the example of "The present king of France is bald". Taken with the inverted truth-value methodology the meaning of this sentence becomes "It is true that there is no present king of France who is bald" which changes the denotation of 'the present king of France' from a primary denotation to a secondary one. Chlodwig I. Das Rad der Zeit 2.

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