In the early 20th century, Bertrand Russell led the British "revolt against idealism". He is widely considered to be one of the major founders of analytic philosophy and one of the 20th century's premier logicians.
Russell's work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science and philosophy, especially the philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
The Essential Bertrand Russell brings together his finest writings, from "On Denoting", a paradigm of philosophy, to his masterpiece "Problems of Philosophy", through to his critical works on freedom from religion.
