Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead

This is a summary of the lives of these two giants of logical positivism and their joint effort publishing, ‘Principia Mathematica.’ The book is more of the Readers Digest version of their lives, but a good introduction to further understanding the personalities of these giants of philosophy. They c......more

This is a summary of the life and thoughts of two opposing philosophers who worked together on one project. The summary is well done, but it loses two stars because it glosses over a major defect in Russel's philosophy on eugenics. Russel believed that the "feeble-minded" should be sterilized so tha......more

Polar opposites on a single dimension. I’ll carry their disagreement about God as a reminder that I’ll never be as sure one exists as Whitehead nor as certain one does not as Russell. Even the most capable thinkers, who agree on everything but the ultimate source of phenomenon, couldn’t move each ot......more

A brief summary and compare and contrast of Russel and Whitehead.......more

interesting comparison......more