Today, he is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy, but he wrote on almost every major area of philosophy, particularly metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of language. Whitehead, where he developed into an innovative philosopher, a prolific writer on many subjects, a committed atheist and an inspired mathematician and logician. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Cambridge University under G.E. His adolescence was very lonely and he suffered from bouts of depression, later claiming that it was only his love of mathematics that kept him from suicide. His parents died when Russell was quite young and he was largely brought up by his staunchly Victorian (although quite progressive) grandmother. Russell was born into a wealthy family of the British aristocracy, although his parents were extremely liberal and radical for the times. He emigrated to the United States in the 1920s, and spent the rest of his life there. After the First World War, though, much of which Russell spent in prison due to his pacifist activities, the collaboration petered out, and Whitehead’s academic career remained ever after in the shadow of that of the more flamboyant Russell. He became Russell’s tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge in the 1890s, and then collaborated with his more celebrated ex-student in the first decade of the 20th Century on their monumental work, the “Principia Mathematica”. Whitehead was the elder of the two and came from a more pure mathematics background. Whitehead (1861-1947)īertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead were British mathematicians, logicians and philosophers, who were in the vanguard of the British revolt against Continental idealism in the early 20th Century and, between them, they made important contributions in the fields of mathematical logic and set theory. BERTRAND RUSSELL & ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD – Principia Mathematica 1+1=2īertrand Russell (1872-1970) and A.N.
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