Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy'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. |
Contents
Preface | 10 |
Current Tendencies | 19 |
Logic as the Essence of Philosophy | 42 |
On Our Knowledge of the External World | 70 |
The World of Physics and the World of Sense | 106 |
The Theory of Continuity | 135 |
The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically | 159 |
The Positive Theory of Infinity | 189 |
On the Notion of Cause with Applications | 214 |
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