# Relevant Authors Contemporary With Russell, Especially Philosophers

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John Dewey is a prime example, and I am pursuing the connection. I just recently came across a professor of his, Gottlob Frege, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, a student of his.

What other contemporary philosophers did he interact with? My interest is not limited to philosophy of mathematics.

I am putting together a “Russell Time-line” and this is part of the project.

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> [@Find\_Friends](#):
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> What other contemporary philosophers did he interact with?

You could try his memoirs. He must have had interactions of some sort with an enormous range of thinkers, writers and political activists as well as academics.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand\_Russell#Selected\_bibliographyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand\_Russell#Selected\_bibliography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Selected_bibliographyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell#Selected_bibliography)

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**Post date:** [October 30, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relevant-authors-contemporary-with-russell-especially-philosophers/800132/3 "2017-10-30T02:51:05Z")

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I’m going to be mining some references at my old Alma Mater tomorrow. I’ll be focusing on who was on the same essential page and who was someone he debated. In the meantime can somebody help me track down a certain name?

At one point a cleric reacted to Russell’s skepticism by saying, in essence, that he was a stranger to Christianity. Russell had actually had a very strong, traditional religious  
upbringing. He quipped that he doubted the cleric was as familiar with atheism as he was with Christianity. Then he sarcastically added that the cleric would no doubt still want to set him straight.

Who was the cleric?