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A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell info

First published 1945

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About this book

Witty, opinionated survey from the Presocratics to Russell's day.

The author

Bertrand Russell

1872–1970 · British philosopher and logician

  • Nobel laureate
  • Professor at Cambridge
  • Professor at LSE
  • Professor at UCLA
Profession
Philosopher, Logician, Professor
Worked at
Cambridge, LSE, UCLA, Chicago
Studied at
Cambridge, Frederick William University Berlin
Studied under
Alfred North Whitehead
Prizes
Nobel Prize in Literature (1950), De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Fellow of the Royal Society (1908), Kalinga Prize (1957), Sonning Prize (1960), Jerusalem Prize (1963), Medal Carl von Ossietzky

Took hundreds of pages of Principia Mathematica to reach 1 + 1 = 2.

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Editions

14 editions · 0 hardcover, 3 paperback · 3 languages

First published 1945

Earliest edition listed: 1945 · Simon and Schuster

  • 1945 · Simon and Schuster
  • 1961 · Allen & Unwin · ISBN 9780041090093
  • 1964 · Simon and Schuster
  • 1967 · Touchstone · Paperback · ISBN 9780671201586
  • 1972 · Simon and Schuster · ISBN 9780671314002
  • 1984 · Holiday House · Paperback · ISBN 9780041000450
  • 1984 · Unwin Paperbacks · 2nd ed. · ISBN 9780041000450
  • 1984 · Unwin Hyman · Paperback · ISBN 9780041000450
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  • 1990 · Simon and Schuster · Microform
  • 1991 · Wei ren chu ban she · Chinese
  • 1998 · Feniks · Russian · ISBN 9785222006979
  • 2004 · Routledge · ISBN 9780415325059
  • 2004 · The Folio Society
  • 2009 · Routledge · Gift ed. · ISBN 9780415478816

The list may be incomplete, especially for older and non-English editions.

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