Project Gutenberg 2011-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 378 Russell, Bertrand 1872 1970 Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d Earl Russell, Bertrand A. W. (Bertrand Arthur William) Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy Preface -- Current tendencies -- Logic as the essence of philosophy -- On our knowledge of the external world -- The world of physics and the world of sense -- The theory of continuity -- The problem of infinity considered historically -- The positive theory of infinity -- On the notion of cause, with applications to the free-will problem. Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell is a philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. The work explores the limitations and potentials of the logical-analytic method in philosophy, aiming to ground philosophical inquiry in scientific principles and objective knowledge. Russell's central focus is on the relation between sensory data and the concepts in mathematical physics. The opening of the text introduces the context for Russell's lectures, where he seeks to establish the importance of a rigorous scientific method in philosophical practice. He evaluates the historical claims made by philosophers about the nature of reality and knowledge, critiquing them for their often excessive ambitions and inadequate results. By doing so, he highlights the need for philosophy to evolve alongside the advances in scientific understanding, employing logic and analysis to tackle complex problems that were previously considered unsolvable. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/37090/37090-h/images/title-page.jpg en Knowledge, Theory of Logical atomism B Text Philosophy Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics 520865 520875 2024-09-15T14:30:54.028677 2023-09-16T07:51:50.990358 text/html text/html 514071 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/html; charset=utf-8 228273 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 248621 2024-09-15T14:31:01.074665 application/epub+zip 254154 2024-09-15T14:30:55.327699 application/epub+zip 225988 2024-09-15T14:30:54.667672 application/epub+zip 394129 2024-09-15T14:31:05.655612 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 341508 2024-09-15T14:31:00.354655 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 319397 2022-09-17T05:01:17.281768 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 448046 2024-09-15T14:30:53.047721 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 447923 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 151803 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 447611 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 151617 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 447633 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 151451 2021-01-08T01:36:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 17686543 2012-03-20T16:00:00 application/octet-stream application/zip 23220 2024-09-15T14:31:05.827614 application/rdf+xml 11582 2024-09-15T14:30:54.773722 image/jpeg 1955 2024-09-15T14:30:54.721707 image/jpeg 230704 2024-09-15T14:30:54.076729 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia