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A Short Biography of Bertrand Russell

Author Name:

Bertrand Russell

Born As:

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Other Names:

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS.

Born:

18 May 1872

Died:

2 Feb 1970




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Atheist, writer, humanist, logician, mathematician, pacifist and philosopher                          
Selected Works: From Wikipedia

1896 - German Social Democracy - London: Longmans - Green.
1897 - An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1900 - A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1903 - The Principles of Mathematics - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1905 - On Denoting - Mind - vol - 14 - ISSN: 00264425 - Basil Blackwell.
1910 - Philosophical Essays - London: Longmans - Green.
1910–1913 - Principia Mathematica (with Alfred North Whitehead) - 3 vols - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1912 - The Problems of Philosophy - London: Williams and Norgate.
1914 - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Chicago and London: Open CPublishing.
1916 - Principles of Social Reconstruction - London: Allen & Unwin.
1916 - Justice in War-time - Chicago: Open Court.
1917 - Political Ideals - New York: The Century Co.
1918 - Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays - London: Longmans - Green.
1918 - Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism - Anarchism - and Syndicalism - London: Allen & Unwin.
1919 - Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - London: Allen & Unwin - Copy at Archive.org.
1920 - The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - London: Allen & Unwin.
1921 - The Analysis of Mind - London: Allen & Unwin.
1922 - The Problem of China - London: Allen & Unwin.
1923 - The Prospects of Industrial Civilization - in collaboration with Dora Russell - London: Allen & Unwin.
1923 - The ABC of Atoms - London: Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner.
1924 - Icarus; or - The Future of Science - London: Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner.
1925 - The ABC of Relativity - London: Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner.
1925 - What I Believe - London: Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner.
1926 - On Education - Especially in Early Childhood - London: Allen & Unwin.
1927 - The Analysis of Matter - London: Kegan Paul - Trench - Trubner.
1927 - An Outline of Philosophy - London: Allen & Unwin.
1927 - Why I Am Not a Christian - London: Watts.
1927 - Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell - New York: Modern Library.
1928 - Sceptical Essays - London: Allen & Unwin.
1929 - Marriage and Morals - London: Allen & Unwin.
1930 - The Conquest of Happiness - London: Allen & Unwin.
1931 - The Scientific Outlook - London: Allen & Unwin.
1932 - Education and the Social Order - London: Allen & Unwin.
1934 - Freedom and Organization - 1814–1914 - London: Allen & Unwin.
1935 - In Praise of Idleness - London: Allen & Unwin.
1935 - Religion and Science - London: Thornton Butterworth.
1936 - Which Way to Peace? - London: Jonathan Cape.
1937 - The Amberley Papers: The Letters and Diaries of Lord and Lady Amberley - with Patricia Russell - 2 vols. - London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press.
1938 - Power: A New Social Analysis - London: Allen & Unwin.
1940 - An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth - New York: W - W - Norton & Company.
1945 - History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - New York: Simon and Schuster.
1948 - Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits - London: Allen & Unwin.
1949 - Authority and the Individual - London: Allen & Unwin.
1950 - Unpopular Essays - London: Allen & Unwin.
1951 - New Hopes for a Changing World - London: Allen & Unwin.
1952 - The Impact of Science on Society - London: Allen & Unwin.
1953 - Satan in the Suburbs and Other Stories - London: Allen & Unwin.
1954 - Human Society in Ethics and Politics - London: Allen & Unwin.
1954 - Nightmares of Eminent Persons and Other Stories - London: Allen & Unwin.
1956 - Portraits from Memory and Other Essays - London: Allen & Unwin.
1956 - Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901–1950 - edited by Robert C - Marsh - London: Allen & Unwin.
1957 - Why I Am Not A Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects - edited by Paul Edwards - London: Allen & Unwin.
1958 - Understanding History and Other Essays - New York: Philosophical Library.
1959 - Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare - London: Allen & Unwin.
1959 - My Philosophical Development - London: Allen & Unwin.
1959 - Wisdom of the West - edited by Paul Foulkes) - London: Macdonald.
1960 - Bertrand Russell Speaks His Mind - Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company.
1961 - The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell - edited by R.E - Egner and L.E - Denonn - London: Allen & Unwin.
1961 - Fact and Fiction - London: Allen & Unwin.
1961 - Has Man a Future? - London: Allen & Unwin.
1963 - Essays in Skepticism - New York: Philosophical Library.
1963 - Unarmed Victory - London: Allen & Unwin.
1965 - On the Philosophy of Science - edited by Charles A - Fritz - Jr - Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
1967 - Russell's Peace Appeals - edited by Tsutomu Makino and Kazuteru Hitaka - Japan: Eichosha's New Current Books.
1967 - War Crimes in Vietnam - London: Allen & Unwin.
1967–1969 - The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell - 3 vols. - London: Allen & Unwin.
1969 - Dear Bertrand Russell - A Selection of his Correspondence with the General Public 1950–1968 - edited by Barry Feinberg and Ronald Kasrils - London: Allen and Unwin.

Note: This is a mere sampling, for Russell also wrote many pamphlets,  introductions, articles and letters to the editor. His works also can be found in any number of anthologies and collections, perhaps most notably The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, which McMaster University began publishing in 1983. This collection of his shorter and previously unpublished works is now up to 16 volumes, and many more are forthcoming. An additional three volumes catalogue just his bibliography - The Russell Archives at McMaster University also have more than 30,000 letters that he wrote.

Additional references: Russell:

1900 - Sur la logique des relations avec des applications à la théorie des séries - Rivista di matematica 7: 115-148.
1901 - On the Notion of Order - Mind (n.s.) 10: 35-51.
1902 - (with Alfred North Whitehead) - On Cardinal Numbers - American Journal of Mathematics 23: 367-384.                                              
Mother Katherine Stanley
Father  John Russell, Viscount Amberley - three children 
Frank, Rachel and Russell.
Mother  Katharine Louisa Stanley
Father  John Russell, Viscount Amberley, three children

First wife Alys Pearsall Smith- married 1894 divorced, 1913
Second wife  Dora Black - married 1921 - two children John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell, and Katharine Jane Russell now Lady Katharine Tait.
Third wife  Patricia Spence - married 1936, one son Conrad Sebastian Robert Russel, divorced 1952.
Fourth wife, Edith Finch 1952.
                                              
                                              
Russell's father, Viscount Amberley, was an atheist and consented to his wife's affair with their children's tutor, the biologist Douglas Spalding. Both were early advocates of birth control at a time when this was considered scandalous.