PhilosophersBertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Clarify thought with logic, doubt dogmas.
Analytic philosophy · Empiricism1872 – 1970 United KingdomLogicianAnalytic philosopherCritic of religionPeace campaigner
Inspirations
Hume empiricism and the problem of induction
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz studies his logic, rejects his proof of God
criticJohn Stuart Millhis secular godfather: "Who made God?"
Gottlob Fregemodern logic
Heirs
Ludwig Wittgenstein his student at Cambridge, who went beyond him
Cercle de Viennelogical analysis against metaphysics
Karl Popperscience without induction
criticSimilar and opposite philosophers
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John Rawls A society is just if its rules would be chosen by people who did not know what place they would hold in it.
92 %John Dewey Human nature supplies raw materials; customs, education and institutions give them shape.
89 %Paul Feyerabend The language of mental states is a theory, which science can correct or replace.
86 %John Leslie Mackie Evil makes belief in a God both all-powerful and wholly good incoherent.
86 %