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In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Bertrand
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge classics.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Psychology > Physics--Philosophy > Physics > Philosophy, Modern
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophic doubts
  • Man from without
  • Man and his environment
  • The process of learning in animals and infants
  • Language
  • Perception objectively regarded
  • Memory objectively regarded
  • Inference as a habit
  • Knowledge behaviouristically considered
  • The physical world
  • The structure of the atom
  • Relativity
  • Causal laws in physics
  • Physics and perception
  • Physical and perceptual space
  • Perception and physical causal laws
  • The nature of our knowledge of physics
  • Man from within
  • Self-observation
  • Images
  • Imagination and memory
  • The introspective analysis of perception
  • Consciousness?
  • Emotion, desire, and will
  • Ethics
  • The universe
  • Some great philosophies of the past
  • Truth and falsehood
  • The validity of inference
  • Events, matter, and mind
  • Man's place in the universe.

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