Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits: Its Scope and Limits (Routledge Classics) - Hardcover

Russell, Bertrand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113845754X ISBN 13: 9781138457546

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

How do we know what we "know"? How did we as individuals and as a society come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between individual and scientific knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.

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About the Author

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). The leading British Philosopher of the twentieth century, who made major contributions to the area of logic and epistemology. Politically active and habitually outspoken, his ethical principles twice lead to imprisonment

Review

"It is the nearest thing to a systematic philosophy written by one who does not believe in systems of philosophy. Its scope is encyclopedic . . . a joy to read."
-Sidney Hook, "The New York Times
"His intelligibility comes of stating things directly as he himself sees them, sharply defined and readily crystallized in the best English philosophical style."
-"Times Literary Supplement
"Of peculiar importance is that it is an exemplar, for the general reader, of Russell's special contribution to human knowledge. In it he applies with his usual lucidity and wit, the methods of inquiry, which he has done so much to develop, to the question of how we come to know whatever we do know about the universe."
-"The Observer

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 113845754X
• ISBN 13: 9781138457546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480