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Bertrand Russell lived for almost a hundred years (1872–1970), and was a prolific writer for more than seventy of them, ranging from the foundations of mathematics to logic, from consciousness theory to the history of philosophy, from moral philosophy to political debates. But he is perhaps better known for his pacifism and his militant laicism than for his theoretical work. In 1916, as World War I raged on, his hostility towards the war cost him his position at the university and a period of time in prison; in the last 20 years of his life, he was an active supporter of the anti-nuclear movement.
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Rigamonti, G. (2011). Bertrand Russell. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_4
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