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Bertrand Russell

English
1872 - 1970
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, and writer, born on 18 May 1872 at Trelleck. A founding figure of analytic philosophy and logicism, he published extensively on logic, epistemology, and the theory of knowledge, with his best-known works including Principia Mathematica and A History of Western Philosophy (1945), which became a bestseller. He received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

4.6/5

First published in 1945 in the United States, Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy is a sweeping survey of Western thought from the pre-Socratic philosophers through the early twentieth century — a work cited by the Nobel Committee when Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, and one that has remained continuously in print ever since. Its strengths as an accessible, historically contextualised overview are real and well-documented; its acknowledged weaknesses — overgeneralisations and omissions, particularly in the post-Cartesian period — are equally part of its record. Both deserve honest attention.

Reviewed Mar 23, 2026

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