CiNii Books - Human knowledge : its scope and limits

Author(s)

Bibliographic Information

Human knowledge : its scope and limits

Bertrand Russell ; with a new introduction by John G. Slater

（Routledge classics）

Routledge, 2009

: pbk

Available at / 5 libraries

京都大学吉田南総合図書館図

: pbk080||R||17||20200030728003

OPAC
神戸市外国語大学図書館図

N133.5-25350477598

OPAC
高千穂大学図書館

: pbkT00308990

OPAC
Nagoya University Library情報・言語

: pbk133.5||R41581464

OPAC
Hirosaki University Library本館

: pbk133.5||R89h08653536

OPAC
No Libraries matched.
Remove all filters.

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Originally published: London : George Allen & Unwin , 1948

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

How do we know what we "know"? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1 The World of Science
Chapter I-1 Individual and Social Knowledge
Chapter I-2 The Universe of Astronomy
Chapter I-3 The World of Physics
Chapter I-4 Biological Evolution
Chapter I-5 The Physiology of Sensation and Volition
Chapter I-6 The Science of Mind
Part 2 Language
Chapter II-1 The Uses of Language
Chapter II-2 Ostensive Definition
Chapter II-3 Proper Names
Chapter II-4 Egocentric Particulars
Chapter II-5 Suspended Reactions: Knowledge and Belief
Chapter II-6 Sentences
Chapter II-7 External Reference of Ideas and Beliefs
Chapter II-8 Truth: Elementary Forms
Chapter II-9 Logical Words and Falsehood
Chapter II-10 General Knowledge
Chapter II-11 Fact, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge
Part 3 Science and Perception
introduction3 Introduction
Chapter III-1 Knowledge of Facts and Knowledge of Laws
Chapter III-2 Solipsism
Chapter III-3 Probable Inference in Common-Sense Practice
Chapter III-4 Physics and Experience
Chapter III-5 Time in Experience
Chapter III-6 Space in Psychology
Chapter III-7 Mind and Matter
Part 4 Scientific Concepts
Chapter IV-1 Interpretation
Chapter IV-2 Minimum Vocabularies
Chapter IV-3 Structure
Chapter IV-4 Structure and Minimum Vocabularies
Chapter IV-5 Time, Public and Private
Chapter IV-6 Space in Classical Physics
Chapter IV-7 Space-Time
Chapter IV-8 The Principle of Individuation
Chapter IV-9 Causal Laws
Chapter IV-10 Space-Time and Causality
Part 5 Probability
introduction5 Introduction
Chapter V-1 Kinds of Probability
Chapter V-2 Mathematical Probability
Chapter V-3 The Finite-Frequency Theory
Chapter V-4 The Mises-Reichenbach Theory
Chapter V-5 Keynes's Theory of Probability
Chapter V-6 Degrees of Credibility
Chapter V-7 Probability and Induction
Part 6 Postulates of Scientific Inference
Chapter VI-1 Kinds of Knowledge
Chapter VI-2 The Role of Induction
Chapter VI-3 The Postulate of Natural Kinds, or of Limited Variety
Chapter VI-4 Knowledge Transcending Experience
Chapter VI-5 Causal Lines
Chapter VI-6 Structure and Causal Laws
Chapter VI-7 Interaction
Chapter VI-8 Analogy
Chapter VI-9 Summary of Postulates
Chapter VI-10 The Limits of Empiricism

by "Nielsen BookData"