Since pretty much any subject matter these days is open to be musicalized (or Andrew Lloyd “Vombo”rized) why not this? (H/T to my chum and Russell scholar Andrew Irvine). The world premiere of a fascinating and unusual new work by Tyrone Landau based on ‘Principia Mathematica’ by Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell, published in the…
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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of philosopher Bertrand Russell. Analytic philosophybertrand russellHistory of Western PhilosophyLudwig WittgensteinMelvyn BraggNobel Prize in LiteraturePrinciples of Mathematics
This from David Boucher’s The Victim of Thought: The Idealist Inheritance: Idealists and realists were not as antagonistic toward each other as is commonly thought. Harold Joachim, for example, submitted the second chapter of The Nature of Truth to his “friend Bertrand Russell” before the book was published. R. G. Collingwood was a respected figure internationally…
I’ve just discovered that the bust of Bertie in Red Lion Square commissioned by Ayer et al was sculpted by none other than Marcelle Quinton, the widow of my chum Tony Quinton (see announcement below). If I get the opportunity I must ask her about it (Marcelle is a formidable intellect – she and Tony…
What sort of post would be suitable to mark the 1,000th? This is it – the cutting intelligence and witticism of none other than Russell. First, is a very brief snippet on smoking; the next three comprise a reading of Russell’s In Praise of Idleness with transcript. On Smoking Idleness – Part 1: Idleness – Part…
The conversation continues . . . Allow me to quote Nietzsche (although I know that will be considered by some to be in bad taste): “As the circle of science grows larger, it touches paradox at more places.” Physicists expand the circle, and philosophers help clear up the paradoxes. May both camps flourish. bertrand russellDavid…
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