Human knowledge
Subtitle: its scope and limits
By: Bertrand Russell ; with an introduction by John G. Slater
Contributors: Slater, John G. (John Greer)
Series: Routledge classics; Routledge classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780203875353
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge; Théorie de la connaissance; Epistemology; PHILOSOPHY
Description: In this brilliant, provocative and controversial work, Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions about knowledge? how it is we come to know what we?know?? and investigates the relationship between?individual? and?scientific? knowledge.
Notes: Originally published: 1948.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION BY JOHN G. SLATER; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part I The World of Science; 1 INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE; 2 THE UNIVERSE OF ASTRONOMY; 3 THE WORLD OF PHYSICS; 4 BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; 5 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SENSATION AND VOLITION; 6 THE SCIENCE OF MIND; Part II Language; 1 THE USES OF LANGUAGE; 2 OSTENSIVE DEFINITION; 3 PROPER NAMES; 4 EGOCENTRIC PARTICULARS; 5 SUSPENDED REACTIONS: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF; 6 SENTENCES; 7 EXTERNAL REFERENCE OF IDEAS AND BELIEFS; 8 TRUTH: ELEMENTARY FORMS; 9 LOGICAL WORDS AND FALSEHOOD; 10 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.