En este segundo tomo, Bertrand Russell completa el análisis de la filosofía medieval con el estudio de los escolásticos y traza una panorámica en profundidad de la filosofía renacentista y la trayectoria de los principales filósofos del mundo moderno desde la Reforma protestante hasta el siglo XX.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."