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Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russell thought Wittgenstein's elevation of language as the only reality with which philosophy need be concerned was absurd, and he decried his influence and the influence of his followers, especially members of the so-called Oxford school, who he believed were promoting a kind of mysticism. Russell's ethical outlook and his personal courage in facing controversies were certainly informed by his religious upbringing, principally by his paternal grandmother, who instructed him with the Biblical injunction, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2), something he said influenced him throughout his life. Russell was an early critic of the official story in the John F. Kennedy assassination; his "16 Questions on the Assassination" from 1964 is still considered a good summary of the apparent inconsistencies in that case. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertrand_Russell   (8661 words)

MSN Encarta - Bertrand Russell Russell and Whitehead proved that numbers can be defined as classes of a certain type, and in the process they developed logic concepts and a logic notation that established symbolic logic as an important specialization within the field of philosophy. Russell condemned both sides in World War I (1914-1918), and for his uncompromising stand he was fined, imprisoned, and deprived of his teaching post at Cambridge. Russell received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature and was cited as “the champion of humanity and freedom of thought.” He led a movement in the late 1950s advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain, and at the age of 89 he was imprisoned after an antinuclear demonstration. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572097/Bertrand_Russell.html   (768 words)

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Russell had a distinguished background: His grandfather Lord John Russell introduced the Reform Bill of 1832 and was twice prime minister; his parents were both prominent freethinkers; and his informal godfather was John Stuart Mill. Russell studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (1890–94), where later he was a fellow (1895–1901) and a lecturer (1910–16). If Russell’s logic was not always unassailable, his life showed that ethical relativism could be combined with a passionate social conscience, and that passionate commitment could be stated without dogmatism. www.bartleby.com /65/ru/RusslBer.html   (1197 words)

Arthur Russell (athlete) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur Russell (March 13, 1886 - August 23, 1972) was a British athlete and winner of the 3,200 metres steeplechase at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Russell, from Staffordshire, won the British AAA Championships in steeplechase from 1904 to 1906. Afterwards Russell and American John Eisele fought for the lead until the bell, when Briton Archie Robertson passed Eisele and was only beaten by two yards by Russell, with Eisele 25 yards behind. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Russell_(athlete)   (178 words)

Russell His contributions relating to mathematics include his discovery of Russell's paradox, his defence of logicism (the view that mathematics is, in some significant sense, reducible to formal logic), his introduction of the theory of types, and his refining and popularizing of the first-order predicate calculus. Russell's response to the second of these objections was to introduce, within the ramified theory, the axiom of reducibility. Like Gottlob Frege, Russell's basic idea for defending logicism was that numbers may be identified with classes of classes and that number-theoretic statements may be explained in terms of quantifiers and identity. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Russell.html   (1474 words)

Bertrand Russell Russell's contributions to logic and the foundations of mathematics include his discovery of Russell's paradox, his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is, in some significant sense, reducible to formal logic), his development of the theory of types, and his refining of the first-order predicate calculus. Russell's response was to introduce the axiom of reducibility, an axiom that lessened the vicious circle principle's scope of application, but which many people claimed was too ad hoc to be justified philosophically. Russell's social influence stems from three main sources: his long-standing social activism, his many writings on the social and political issues of his day, and his popularizations of technical writings in philosophy and the natural sciences. plato.stanford.edu /entries/russell   (3963 words)

Bertrand Arthur William Russell Russell's father had arranged custody of his two sons to two atheists but after his death in 1876 Russell’s grandfather who had served twice as Prime Minister under Queen Victoria had no difficulty in getting Russell's father's will overturned. Russell was at first educated privately at home and later went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a brilliant student of mathematics and philosophy. Russell ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, in 1907, 1922, and 1923. www.personal.kent.edu /~rmuhamma/Philosophy/bertrandRussell.html   (1607 words)

village voice > music > The World of Arthur Russell by Douglas Wolk Arthur Russell was the most maddening kind of genius: the kind who produces mountains of extraordinary work, and can barely ever actually finish it. Russell died of AIDS in 1992, after spending the second half of the '80s endlessly working and reworking and never finishing an album of pop songs. Russell's lyrics are about emotional awkwardness and overwhelmedness, human bodies being human in motion and in water and in beds. www.villagevoice.com /issues/0410/wolk.php   (556 words)

Russell Russell supported the battle against Fascism during World War II but continued to protest Western colonialization and publicly deplored the development of weapons of mass destruction, as is evident in "The Bomb and Civilization" (1945), Throughout his life, Russell was an outspoken critic of organized religion as both unfounded and deceptive; he detailed its harmful social consequences in "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927) and defended an agnostic alternative in "A Free Man's Worship" (1903). Although Russell's philosophical positions were soon eclipsed by those of Wittgenstein and the logical positivists, his model of the possibilities for analytic thought remains influential. www.philosophypages.com /ph/russ.htm   (586 words)

The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events Russell’s work is stranded between lands real and imagined: the street and the cornfield; the soft bohemian New York and the hard Studio 54 New York; the cheery bold strokes of pop and the liberating possibilities of abstract art. Russell’s recording sessions were a departure from the average hit-making process: they were closer in principle to jazz than to pop or dance. Russell’s solo songs have a less conventional instrumentation than his disco records but, true to his contrarian tendencies, they are generally catchier and shorter, sometimes flirting with traditional verse-chorus movement. newyorker.com /critics/music/?040308crmu_music   (1518 words)

Disco Fever - Arthur Russell was famous in his day; what happened? By Andy Battaglia Arthur Russell was a musical wanderer best known as a disco producer, but understanding his place in the history of disco calls for a renegotiation of terms. By the time Russell died of AIDS in 1992, he had already been forgotten; although he played an important role in disco, conventional history of the genre has never accounted for much more than bright lights and big clubs, where opulent dance music served as a soundtrack to showy social scenes. Russell has earned hero status among a current generation of acts (the Rapture, Playgroup, !!!, Metro Area) who are looking back at fusions of rock, pop, and dance music. www.slate.com /id/2096948   (1051 words)

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Russell, Bertrand Arthur William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Russell was born in Monmouthshire, the grandson of Prime Minister John Russell. Russell of Killowen, Charles Russell, Lord Russell of Killowen This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Russell,+Bertrand+Arthur+William   (323 words)

Arthur Russell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Russell was a machinist at the former Davis & Furber Machine Co. Mr. Russell was also a custodian for seven years at Georgetown High School before retiring in 1975. Russell was also on the board of trustees of the Masonic Temple. www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010221/OB_009.htm   (148 words)

* Dusted Reviews - Arthur Russell * Arthur Russell was a great many things throughout his unfortunately brief life. Russell eschewed the more common sounds of the cello — the broad, sweeping swaths of melody and tone — in favor of more phased-out, distorted, and at times minimally percussive figures. Arthur Russell's World of Echo is precisely that type of record — a place where music and persona intertwine so fundamentally and pull you so deeply within its grasp that the prospect of never emerging again doesn't seem so bad. www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1829   (1122 words)

Arthur Russell, MP3 Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Arthur Russell was a formally trained cellist and composer with a background in Indian classical music, and a resume highlighted by collaborations with Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass. The same Arthur Russell was also a quirky songwriter, a producer of one-shot disco singles, a founding partner of seminal hip-hop/dance label Sleeping Bag, and a principle designer of the dubby, underground club sound that bridged the gap between the disco era and the first stirrings of house and garage music. Russell moved to New York in the mid '70s, where he collaborated in the Flying Hearts, a rock project that involved the likes of David Byrne, Rhys Chatham and Peter Gordon. www.emusic.com /artist/11572/11572270.html   (581 words)

Arthur Russell (1951-1992) Arthur Russell (Oskaloosa, Iowa 1951-April 4, 1992) was a gay cellist, composer, and disco artist. Arthur Russell died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992. Arthur Russell was an avant garde cellist who was also active in club music, after being introduced to it by Nicky Siano. www.jahsonic.com /ArthurRussell.html   (3352 words)

Critical Thinkers :: Bertrand Russell Resources Bertrand Arthur William Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970), the third Earl Russell, was one of the most influential mathematicians, philosophers and logicians working (mostly) in the 20th century, an important political liberal, activist and a popularizer of philosophy. Millions looked up to Russell as a sort of prophet of the creative and rational life; at the same time, his stance on many topics was extremely controversial. He was born in 1872, at the height of Britain's economic and political ascendancy, and died, of influenza, in 1970 when Britain's empire had all but vanished and her power had been drained in two victorious but debilitating world wars. www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/russell.htm   (627 words)

Alibris: Bertrand Arthur Russell So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws with a discussion of perception, memory, learning in... www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bertrand_Arthur_Russell   (725 words)

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) RUSSELL, BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL, 3D EARL [Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl] 1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer, b. Russell studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (1890-94), where later he was a fellow (1895-1901) and a lecturer (1910-16). In his autobiography (3 vol., 1967-69) Russell summarized his personal philosophy by saying, "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RusslB1er.asp   (1319 words)

City Pages - Arthur Russell: <I>The World of Arthur Russell </I> Russell died in 1992 of AIDS; he was largely forgotten in the face of an alt-rock culture too "real" for disco and a rave music culture for whom 1988 was year zero. Russell was one of the key artists to mark the lineage between the BeeGees and Daft Punk, but be forewarned: His is not house music as currently practiced. What thrills about Russell's work now is this feeling of a very singular vision: He's a mimsy folkie who let a DJ save his life one night and never looked back, a post-minimalist composer who was put through the technological wringer. www.citypages.com /databank/25/1205/article11805.asp   (615 words)

* Dusted Reviews - Arthur Russell * More than music about a specific timeframe or place, disco was in fact, one of the defining characteristics of being there, an inseparable aspect of a lifestyle, of an active youth cultural movement, and as it largely coincided with punk rock, was one of the last musical entities that was fully manifest in that regard. Russell was aiming for something else, a personal set of symbols, removed from discotheque references and cultural ephemera. Russell’s world is not one so much of hedonism, but one of outright optimism, of trust and confidence in the listener. www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1277   (985 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Son of Rev. Thomas Clout, Arthur changed his sur­name to Russ­ell, af­ter an In­de­pen­dent or Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter known for ed­it­ing the works of Tyn­dale, Frith, Barnes, Dr. John Ow­en, and others. Ar­thur at­tend­ed St. Sav­iour’s School, South­wark, and the Mer­chant Tay­lors’ School in Lon­don. Russell’s first ap­pearance as a hymn writ­er was in the third edi­tion of the hymn book pub­lished by his fa­ther (first edi­tion, 1813). www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/r/u/russell_at.htm   (327 words)

village voice > music > Arthur Russell's World of Echo by Andy Beta As Russell's mumbles jumble fragmented filaments into blurry medleys, his affected cello enunciates with fuzzy fricatives and slippery sibilants. Sighing subtly, elsewhere growling, it shadows the fragile, reflective songs, buoying them in near beatless dub space; the loopy mantras are articulated even as they refract. Arthur's in some imaginary faraway-type place—maybe the locus he hints at on "Hiding Your Present From You" where "you know where it is, but don't know where it is"? www.villagevoice.com /music/0502,beta,59924,22.html   (267 words)

DJ Friendly Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Sadly Arthur died in 1992, but his music lives on and his influence is still felt on the dance music scene, his tunes still sound great and are still moving many dancers around the world, so his spirit lives on. Mid eighties release from Arthur and he was still pushing the limits of dance music with this mid tempo keyboard and percussion driven club tune. Arthur's contribution on this 1986 NY Art House Scene LP was to co-write THAT HAT, on which he also sings, plays his electric cello and programs the Linn Drum... www.djfriendly.co.uk /arthur.php   (956 words)

AllRefer.com - Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia AllRefer.com - Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl, Philosophy, Biographies Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl 1872–1970, British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer, b. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RusslBer.html   (149 words)

A Philosophy of Leibniz: With an Appendix of Leading Passages - Bertrand Arthur Russell John G Slater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) Isbn: 041508296X by Bertrand Arthur Russell John G Slater Bertrand Russell John G Slater - An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry - 0415141451 bertrand arthur russell russel rusell artur berdrand ardhur bertrant pertrand bertrnad arhtur bretrand ertrand brtrand betrand berrand bertand bertrnd bertrad bertran bertrandarthur rthur athur arhur arthr arthu arthurrussell ussell rssell russllamerican literature short stories americanliteratureclassics.com /84327_bertrand-arthur-russell-john-g...   (210 words)

arthur russell, the world of arthur russell ARTHUR RUSSELL - The World Of Arthur Russell Arthur heard disco as one of the most potent musics, ripe for experimentation and proceeded to do exactly that. Enlisting mixers from the a-list - Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan, Francois Kevorkian - Arthur's tunes have passed into musical foklore - with all 13 minutes of the awesome "In The Light Of The Miracle" present here, there's really no further need for discussion...involve yourself immediately with this wonderful music. www.boomkat.com /item.cfm?id=12676   (375 words)

arthur russell Arthur has occupied a rare, enigmatic position within the deep groove community. Mostly the material here is derived from two unreleased albums worth, a 1985 test pressing entitled 'Corn' and a long planned album for Rough Trade, worked on between 1986 - 90 and eventually shelved when Russell became too ill to complete, or let go of his material. For many years the music of Arthur Russell (vocals, cello, hand percussion and echoes) has only been talked about in hushed tones bar the very few lucky enough to own any of this master's works, all so rare and often issued in extremely limited numbers. www.boomkat.com /artist.cfm?a=338   (496 words)

ARTHUR RUSSELL Arthur Russell "My Tiger, My Timing" Posted by Sorcerer Chimney (11/10/2005) Arthur Russell "This is how we walk on the moon" Posted by Sorcerer Chimney (11/02/2005) Arthur Russell "Place I Know/Kid Like You" Posted by Clunkified Chimney (05/09/2005) dreamchimney.com /tracks/artist_info.php?id=481   (177 words)

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