| Description |
xii, 247 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. Philosophic Doubts -- 2. Man and his Environment -- 3. The Process of Learning in Animals and Infants -- 4. Language -- 5. Perception Objectively Regarded -- 6. Memory Objectively Regarded -- 7. Inference as a Habit -- 8. Knowledge Behaviouristically Considered -- 9. The Structure of the Atom -- 10. Relativity -- 11. Causal Laws in Physics -- 12. Physics and Perception -- 13. Physical and Perceptual Space -- 14. Perception and Physical Causal Laws -- 15. The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics -- 16. Self-observation -- 17. Images -- 18. Imagination and Memory -- 19. The Introspective Analysis of Perception -- 20. Consciousness? -- 21. Emotion, Desire, and Will -- 22. Ethics -- 23. Some Great Philosophies of the Past -- 24. Truth and Falsehood -- 25. The Validity of Inference -- 26. Events, Matter, and Mind -- 27. Man's Place in the Universe |
| Summary |
"Philosophy, Russell argues in An Outline of Philosophy, is concerned with the universe as a whole. Humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. Russell illuminates the ways in which we are capable of knowledge and discovering natural laws with a discussion of perception, memory, learning in infants and animals and linguistic ability. He moves on to a study of the physical world and then to a discussion of humanity as it sees itself. Finally Russell considers some of the great philosophers of the past and what philosophy has to say about humanity's place in the universe."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed.: London : Unwin Hyman, 1979 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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Psychology.
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| ISBN |
0415140307 |
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0415141176 (paperback) |
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