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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Title: Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415474442
ISBN 13: 9780415474443
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good

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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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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

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