Bertrand Russell was a philosopher, logician, and mathematician, who became a world-famous popular writer on religion, marriage, pacifism, nuclear disarmament, and many other important topics. He’s one of my all-time favourite philosophers.
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00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Russell’s family
02:05 - University
02:57 - Foundations of Mathematics
03:30 - On Denoting and Principia Mathematica
04:09 - Wittgenstein and War
05:17 - Russia and Dora Black
05:38 - Experiments in education
07:00 - Lecturing in the US
09:10 - Pacifism and WW2
10:01 - UK public intellectual
11:30 - Nuclear disarmament and Vietnam
12:54 - Autobiography and Israel
13:24 - Russell on Death and Dying
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