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Author Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Title Our knowledge of the external world : as a field for scientific method in philosophy / Bertrand Russell
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 210 pages)
Series Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
Contents Introduction -- Preface -- Current tendencies -- Logic as the essence of philosophy -- On our knowledge of the external world -- The world of physics and the world of sense -- The theory of continuity -- The problem of infinity considered historically -- The positive theory of infinity -- On the notion of cause, with applications to the free-will problem
Summary The very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy is examined in this explosive and controversial work which investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge, and questions the means by which we come to understand the physical world
Notes Orignally published: Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co., 1914
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
Logical atomism.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Knowledge, Theory of
Logical atomism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203875360
0203875362