Essays on Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl of Russell, born in 1872, was a renowned mathematician and philosopher. Russell’s work spanned many different fields, from the foundations of logic to the inner workings of society. Russell published more than 70 books and countless essays spanning all of his interests, culminating in Russell winning the 1950 Nobel...

Russell is right in surmising that we can know about other people’s mental state by analogy with our own experience. He does not prove this beyond the shadow of doubt. Instead he postulates. To postulate means to assume the existence of something as a basis for reasoning. Russell is reasonable in making this argument. Unlike...

Socrates and Plato Greek philosophy covers an absolutely enormous amount of topics including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric, and aesthetics. Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher, was born in Athens in 470 BC, is often credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and as being the first moral philosopher of...