Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Softcover

Russell, Bertrand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415096057 ISBN 13: 9780415096058

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

'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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Review:

." . . [a] brilliant, lucid and amusing book which . . . everyone can understand."
-"New Statesman
"The author maintains the fresh and brilliant yet easy style which always makes his writings a pleasure to read."
-"Nature

Synopsis:

So begins Our Knowledge of the External World , Bertrand Russell's classic 'attempt to show by means of examples, the nature, capacity and limitations of the logico-analytical method in philosophy'. This paperback edition of Our Knowledge of the External World includes a new introduction by John G. Slater, University of Toronto. FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL 1914 EDITION 'This brilliant, lucid and amusing book which ...everyone can understand' New Statesman 'It is in every sense an epoch making book: one that has been needed and expected for years' Cambridge Magazine 'The author maintains the fresh and brilliant yet easy style which always makes his writings a pleasure to read' Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415096057
• ISBN 13: 9780415096058
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256