Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value

by Bertrand Russell

Overview

Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It is a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415083027
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/21/1992
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	548
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bertrand Russell, Introduction by John G. Slater University of Toronto

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION PART I. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE PART II. LANGUAGE PART III. SCIENCE AND PERCEPTION HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS SCOPE AND LIMITS PART IV. SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS PART V. PROBABILITY PART VI. POSTULATES OF SCIENTIFIC INFERENCE

Editorial Reviews

‘It is the nearest thing to a systematic philosophy written by one who does not believe in systems of philosophy. Its scope is encyclopedic ... a joy to read.' - Sydney Hook, New York Times

‘His intelligibility comes of stating things directly as he himself sees them, sharply defined and readily crystallised in the best English philosophical style.' - TLS

‘Of peculiar importance in that it is an exemplar, for the general reader, of Russell's special contribution to human knowledge. In it he applies with his usual lucidity and wit, the methods of inquiry, which he has done so much to develop, to the question of how we come to know whatever we do know about the universe.' - The Observer

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