The Problems of Philosophy

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Hackett Publishing, Jan 1, 1990 - Philosophy - 167 pages
Contents:

I. Appearance and Reality
II. The Existence of Matter
III. The Nature of Matter
IV. Idealism
V. Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
VI. On Induction
VII. On our Knowledge of General Principles
VIII. How A Priori Knowledge is Possible
IX. The World of Universals
X. On Our Knowledge of Universals
XI. On Intuitive Knowledge
XII. Truth and Falsehood
XIII. Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion
XIV. The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge
XV. The Value of Philosophy
Bibliographical Not
Index
 

Contents

III
27
IDEALISM
37
KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOW
45
ON INDUCTION
60
ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES
70
VIII
82
THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS
91
XI
111
XII
119
KNOWLEDGE ERROR AND PROBABLE OPINION
131
THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
141
XV
153
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.

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