02016nam a22003017a 45000010005000000030005000050050017000100080041000270200029000680400029000970820017001261000024001432450050001672640044002173000023002613360021002843370025003053380023003305201049003536500038014026500028014406500011014686500018014796500017014979420015015149520170015299990015016991190MBIP20250718111438.0250718b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781399612357qPaperback  aMBIPbengcMBIPdNFerda04223a191bRAY1 aMonk, Ray eauthor.10aThe Great Philosophers:  RUSSELL /cRay Monk. 1aLONDON:bOrion Publishing Group,c2023.  a58 pages :c18 cm.  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  a'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell

'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know'

Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: 'as dazzling as first love'. From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematics might succeed, he felt, where philosophy had failed, reducing thought to its purest form, and freeing knowledge from doubt and contradiction. And for a time, so it seemed. Russell's mathematical investigations effortlessly resolved at a stroke some of philosophy's most intractable problems. Yet if mathematics could be a liberating mistress, she was also an unreliable one...

Opening up the work of one of our age's undisputed giants, Ray Monk's exhilaratingly clear, readable guide tells a compelling human tale too: a moving story of love and loss, of ecstatic triumph and deep disillusion. 0aPhilosophy, Moderny20th century. 0aPhilosophy, Analytical. 0aLogic. 0aEpistemology. 0aMetaphysics.  2ddccBKn0  00102ddc40708NON-FIC (BK)aMEDINIbMEDINIcGENd2025-07-18eIMS BOOKS TRADING SDN BHDg36.95l0o191 RAY 2023 c.1p00001457r2025-07-18t1v36.95w2025-07-18yBK  c1190d1190