Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Paperback)

Paperback. 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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.