1st Edition

Our Knowledge of the External World

By Bertrand Russell Copyright 1993
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    '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.

    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;

    Biography

    Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater

    '[a] brilliant, lucid and amusing book which ... everyone can understand' - New Statesman