An unexpected kind of comic book hero is set to emerge this autumn: Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, logician, mathematician and Nobel prize for literature winner who wrote the seminal work on mathematical logic, the Principia Mathematica.
That's right. A graphic novel starring Lord Bertie and pals (e.g., Whitehead (before he got dumb), Wittgenstein (before he got dumb), Hilbert), chronicling their quest to understand. Check it.
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Huh ... interesting. But why is it that Boole, DeMorgan, and Peirce always seem to get screwed over by historians of logic? Or is it just me?
They just get screwed over by you.
Huh?! I would have thought Kantians vs Hegelians more interesting...
I think it's not the historians of logic that screw over Boole, DeMorgan, and Peirce, but rather the philosophers w/o enough historical knowledge, who think that modern logic sprung fully formed from Frege's brow. Those who are more serious about history (Bill Ewald, for example) know this is nonsense.
I hope that they look into Bertie's private life, though that might require making it an adult's only comic.
Anon 9:25 - Yes, it will be interesting to see how they portray Russell.
Ray Monk, who wrote biographies of both Russell and Wittgenstein, apparently changed his opinions of both over the course of writing about them. The more he learned about Russell's life, the less Monk liked him; the more he learned about Wittgenstein's life, the more sympathetic Monk became. (Though I have to say, reading the biographies had the opposite effect on me...especially with respect to Wittgenstein, who came off like a loony cult leader by the end of the biography.)
I agree with John. Russell seemed far the more tragic figure by the end of Monk's biography than did Wittgenstein. The way he ended up screwing up his children in the same Victorian way he was screwed up (and which he'd spent a good chunk of his adult life rebelling against) was just really sad all around.
But when Wittgenstein successfully encouraged really smart Cambridge students (who were the first in their family to go to college) to go work in foundries, I wanted to punch him.
The reading phenomoenlogy is really strange too because you do get the feeling that Monk is on Wittgenstein's side and just finds Russell distasteful at best.
Monk should have put Larkin's "This Be The Verse" (which, b.t.w. would make a great Ralph Steadman illustrated graphic novel in itself) in front of all three volumes.-
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
Anyone else notice that on the cast of characters page, one of the two women featured (both Russell wives) is carrying a fucking tea tray.
At least they could throw in a young Anscombe to liven things up. I'm certainly not advocating hard-core revisionism, but perhaps it might not be too much to ask for one less fucking tea tray.
Anon at 9:25 wrote "it's not the historians of logic... but rather the philosophers w/o enough historical knowledge..." that screw over Boole, DeMorgan, and Pierce.
perhaps so. But in this case the guy who wrote this comic is a mathematician by training. So let's not blame the philosophers for leaving them out this time.
Umm: before Whitehead got stupid? You mean ,like, before he became one of, if not the, most famous process philosophers?
Sure, Wittgenstein got weird[er], but Whitehead moved to metaphysics. Not exactly 'stoopid.'
"he became one of, if not the, most famous process philosophers"
Uh... exactly.
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