Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
Winter (14+ hours) | This course is completed
Discussion of the edition of his seventeen small essays which comment on fundamental and timeless issues of our unchanging nature and our public life. In my judgement, Bertrand Russell ranks high among the few truly skeptical thinkers of our time. The reading of this edition is required.
- Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russell (ISBN-13: 978-0415325080)
DO NOT USE Werner DO NOT USE Kleinhardt
Werner is a Professor, Emeritus, of Dartmouth College. He considers himself a skeptical humanist since he survived torture and five years of the Gulag. He graduated from the College Francais in Berlin, studied history, philosophy, political sciences, classics, and European literatures. His PhD came from the University of Hamburg. He taught at the Sorbonne before coming to Dartmouth in 1965. He is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books.