Paul Russell is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on September 7, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Paul Russell holds an undergraduate degree from Edinburgh University (1979) and a PhD from Cambridge University (1986). At Cambridge his thesis work was supervised by Professor Sir Bernard Williams. He held a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1984-1987.
Apart from the positions mentioned above he has also held a number of visiting appointments at various universities, including University of Virginia (1988); Stanford University (1989-1990), where he held a Mellon Fellowship; University of Pittsburgh (1996-1997); and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005), where he was Kenan Distinguished Visitor. More recently, he held a half-time position as Professor at Gothenburg University (2015-2017). In 2010 he was the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.
