Our knowledge of the external world : as a field for scientific method in philosophy
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Our knowledge of the external world : as a field for scientific method in philosophy
Routledge, 1993
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Originally published: Open Court Pub. Co., 1914
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
'Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and acheived fewer results than any other branch of learning ... I believe that the time has now arrived when this unsatisfactory state of affairs can be brought to an end' - Bertrand Russell
So begins Our Knowledge of the Eternal World, Bertrand Russell's classic attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy.
Table of Contents
- lecture1 Current Tendencies
- lecture2 Logic as the Essence of Philosophy
- lecture3 On our Knowledge of the External World
- lecture4 The World of Physics and the World of Sense
- lecture5 The Theory of Continuity
- lecture6 The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically
- lecture7 The Positive Theory of Infinity
- lecture8 On the Notion of Cause, With Applications to the Free-Will Problem
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