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Author: Elizabeth Ramsden Eames
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135100535
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Release Date: 2013-01-03
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Download PDF Bertrand Russell S Theory Of Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When future generations come to analyze and survey twentieth-century philosophy as a whole, Bertrand Russell’s logic and theory of knowledge is assured a place of prime importance. Yet until this book was first published in 1969 no comprehensive treatment of his epistemology had appeared. Commentators on twentieth-century philosophy at the time assumed that Russell’s important contributions to the theory of knowledge were made before 1921. This book challenges that assumption and draws attention to features of Russell’s later work which were overlooked. The analysis starts with Russell’s earliest views and moves from book to book and article to article through his enormous span of writing on the problems and theory of knowledge. The changes in ideas as he developed the theory are traced, and the study culminates in a statement of his latest views. His work is seen in a continuity in which the changes were part of the development of his mature thought, and the total evaluation and interpretation clarify many of the common misunderstandings of his philosophy. This is naturally of interest to all philosophers, and for students this is the answer to inevitable questions on the nature of Russell’s ideas and their evolution.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113585839X
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Release Date: 2013-04-15
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Theory Of Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Theory of Knowledge gives us a picture of one of the great minds of the twentieth century at work. It is possible to see the unsolved problems left without disguise or evasion. Historically, it is invaluable to our understanding of both Russell's own thought and his relationship with Wittgenstein.

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Author: Elizabeth R. Eames
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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135858322
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Download PDF Theory Of Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Theory of Knowledge gives us a picture of one of the great minds of the twentieth century at work. It is possible to see the unsolved problems left without disguise or evasion. Historically, it is invaluable to our understanding of both Russell's own thought and his relationship with Wittgenstein.

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Author: Gregory Landini
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030663566
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Release Date: 2022-01-22
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Repairing Bertrand Russell S 1913 Theory Of Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book repairs and revives the Theory of Knowledge research program of Russell’s Principia era. Chapter 1, 'Introduction and Overview', explains the program’s agenda. Inspired by the non-Fregean logicism of Principia Mathematica, it endorses the revolution within mathematics presenting it as a study of relations. The synthetic a priori logic of Principia is the essence of philosophy considered as a science which exposes the dogmatisms about abstract particulars and metaphysical necessities that create prisons that fetter the mind. Incipient in The Problems of Philosophy, the program’s acquaintance epistemology embraced a multiple-relation theory of belief. It reached an impasse in 1913, having been itself retrofitted with abstract particular logical forms to address problems of direction and compositionality. With its acquaintance epistemology in limbo, Scientific Method in Philosophy became the sequel to Problems. Chapter 2 explains Russell’s feeling intellectually dishonest. Wittgenstein’s demand that logic exclude nonsense belief played no role. The 1919 neutral monist era ensued, but Russell found no epistemology for the logic essential to philosophy. Repairing, Chapters 4–6 solve the impasse. Reviving, Chapters 3 and 7 vigorously defend the facts about Principia. Studies of modality and entailment are viable while Principia remains a universal logic above the civil wars of the metaphysicians.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
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Release Date: 1912
Category: Knowledge, Theory of
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Download PDF The Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Spokesman Books
ISBN: 0851247342
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Release Date: 2007
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Logic And Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Many of Bertrand Russell's most important essays in logic and the theory of knowledge were not easily available until Professor Marsh collected them together in 1956. This work is now the best source of Russell's views in these areas and is firmly established as a philosophical classic in its own right.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134026218
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Release Date: 2009-03-04
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Human Knowledge Its Scope And Limits eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: 谷月社
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Release Date: 2015-10-31
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF The Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, is really one of the most difficult that can be asked. When we have realized the obstacles in the way of a straightforward and confident answer, we shall be well launched on the study of philosophy—for philosophy is merely the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we do in ordinary life and even in the sciences, but critically, after exploring all that makes such questions puzzling, and after realizing all the vagueness and confusion that underlie our ordinary ideas. In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe. In the search for certainty, it is natural to begin with our present experiences, and in some sense, no doubt, knowledge is to be derived from them. But any statement as to what it is that our immediate experiences make us know is very likely to be wrong. It seems to me that I am now sitting in a chair, at a table of a certain shape, on which I see sheets of paper with writing or print. By turning my head I see out of the window buildings and clouds and the sun. I believe that the sun is about ninety-three million miles from the earth; that it is a hot globe many times bigger than the earth; that, owing to the earth's rotation, it rises every morning, and will continue to do so for an indefinite time in the future. I believe that, if any other normal person comes into my room, he will see the same chairs and tables and books and papers as I see, and that the table which I see is the same as the table which I feel pressing against my arm. All this seems to be so evident as to be hardly worth stating, except in answer to a man who doubts whether I know anything. Yet all this may be reasonably doubted, and all of it requires much careful discussion before we can be sure that we have stated it in a form that is wholly true....

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Author: C. Wade Savage
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452908109
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Release Date: 1989
Category: Science
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Download PDF Rereading Russell Electronic Resource eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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Download PDF The Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The Problems of Philosophy" is a book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. He introduces philosophy as a repeating series of (failed) attempts to answer the same questions: Can we prove that there is an external world? Can we prove cause and effect? Can we validate any of our generalizations? Can we objectively justify morality? He asserts that philosophy cannot answer any of these questions and that any value of philosophy must lie elsewhere than in offering proofs to these questions.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545246153
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Download PDF The Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all. I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray. 1912 Contents . PREFACE CHAPTER I. APPEARANCE AND REALITY CHAPTER II. THE EXISTENCE OF MATTER CHAPTER III. THE NATURE OF MATTER CHAPTER IV. IDEALISM CHAPTER V. KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION CHAPTER VI. ON INDUCTION CHAPTER VII. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER VIII. HOW A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE IS POSSIBLE CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD OF UNIVERSALS CHAPTER X. ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF UNIVERSALS CHAPTER XI. ON INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER XII. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD CHAPTER XIII. KNOWLEDGE, ERROR, AND PROBABLE OPINION CHAPTER XIV. THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER XV. THE VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY . BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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Author: Keith Green
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441197494
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Release Date: 2007-11-29
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download PDF Bertrand Russell Language And Linguistic Theory eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines. They had much in common during certain periods, yet seemed to continue in almost total ignorance of one another. This negative relation has been noted in the past by Roy Harris, whose work provides some of the inspiration for the present book. Taking those two aspects, Green's aim here is to provide the first full-length consideration of Russell's varied work in language, and to read it in the context of developing contemporary (i.e. with Russell's work) linguistic theory. The main aims of this important new book, in focusing exclusively on Russell's work on language throughout his career, are to place Russell within the changing contexts of contemporary linguistic thought; to read Russell's language-theories against the grain of his own linguistic practice; to assess the relationship between linguistic and philosophical thought during Russell's career, and to reassess his place in the history of linguistic thought in the twentieth century. As such, this fascinating study will make a vital contribution to Russell studies and to the study of the relationship between philosophy and linguistics.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Spokesman Books
ISBN: 0851247385
Size: 23.75 MB
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Release Date: 2008
Category: Mathematics
Language: en
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Download PDF Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Bertrand Russell is probably the most important philosopher of mathematics in the 20th century. He brought together his formidable knowledge of the subject and skills as a gifted communicator to provide a classic introduction to the philosophy of mathematics.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500128890
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Release Date: 2014-06-08
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Download PDF The Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Problems of Philosophy. By Bertrand Russell. The Theory of Knowledge. Complete New Edition. The Problems of Philosophy (1912) is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data. Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike. In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all. I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317858220
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Release Date: 2014-01-09
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Our Knowledge Of The External World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. '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.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000685683
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Release Date: 2022-09-15
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF The Analysis Of Mind eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Bertrand Russell wrote The Analysis of Mind during one of the most turbulent periods of his life. He began it in 1918 whilst in in prison in London for his opposition to the First World War, and completed it in Peking (now Beijing) in 1921, where he had been giving lectures at the National University. It is a vital book for understanding Russell's philosophy. He argues for a fresh conception of the mind, provided by his eclectic fusion of William James’s 'neutral monism'; the emerging theory of behaviourism, to which Russell was strongly drawn; and his own new causal theory of meaning. As such, The Analysis of Mind built a foundation for the distinctive brand of much of his later philosophical writing. In his customary sharp prose, Russell explores fundamental questions about the mind, including desire and feeling; the vexed relationship between psychological and physical laws; sensations and mental images; memory; belief; and emotions and the will. This Routledge Classics edition includes an Introduction by Thomas Baldwin.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
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Release Date: 2021-05-07
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Download PDF Bertrand Russell Problems Of Philosophy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Problems of Philosophy is a book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. He introduces philosophy as a repeating series of (failed) attempts to answer the same questions: Can we prove that there is an external world? Can we prove cause and effect? Can we validate any of our generalizations? Can we objectively justify morality? He asserts that philosophy cannot answer any of these questions and that any value of philosophy must lie elsewhere than in offering proofs to these questions. Wittgenstein suggested further that these questions are empty and the value of philosophy is as an assistant to science.Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
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Release Date: 1919
Category: Mathematics
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Download PDF Mysticism And Logic eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135858675
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Release Date: 2013-10-28
Category: Philosophy
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Download PDF Human Knowledge Its Scope And Value eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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