Publication

1975 - Unwin Books, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100041920309
  • ISBN-139780041920307
  • Goodreads1325136
  • Library of Congress Control Number75331693
  • OCLC Control Number1993357
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  • Better World Books9780041920307
  • Open LibraryOL5258166M

Classifications

  • DDC192
  • LCCB1649.R94 A364 1975
  • LCCB1649.R94.A364 1975

Description

Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano. After two chapters on Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), he passes to the problems of perception as dealt with in Our Knowledge of the External World (1914). In a chapter on ‘The Impact of Wittgenstein’, Russell examines what he now thinks must be accepted and what rejected in that philosopher's work. He notes the changes from earlier theories required by the adoption of William James's view that sensation is not essentially relational and is not per se a form of knowledge. In an explanatory chapter, he endeavours to remove misconceptions of and objections to his theories as to the relation of perception to scientific knowledge. Russell concludes with a reprint of some articles on modern Oxford philosophy.

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  • My philosophical developmentUnwin Books1975-01-01
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