An Outline of Philosophy


AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY

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OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY

BY

BERTRAND RUSSELL

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN , LTD.

RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET , W. C. 1

First published in Great Britain 1927
Published and copyrighted in U.S.A. under the title "Philosophy"
All rights reserved

Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

Chap. Page
I. Philosophic Doubts 1

PART I

MAN FROM WITHOUT

II. Man and his Environment 19
III. The Process of Learning in Animals and Infants 32
IV. Language 46
V. Perception objectively regarded 61
VI. Memory objectively regarded 73
VII. Inference as a Habit 82
VIII. Knowledge behaviouristically considered 91

PART II

THE PHYSICAL WORLD

IX. The Structure of the Atom 103
X. Relativity 113
XI. Causal Laws in Physics 120
XII. Physics and Perception 129
XIII. Physical and Perceptual Space 143
XIV. Perception and Physical Causal Laws 150
XV. The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics 157

PART III

MAN FROM WITHIN

XVI. Self-observation 169
XVII. Images 184
XVIII. Imagination and Memory 195
XIX. The Introspective Analysis of Perception 209
XX. Consciousness? 218
XXI. Emotion, Desire, and Will 226
XXII. Ethics 233

PART IV

THE UNIVERSE

XXIII. Some Great Philosophers of the Past 247
XXIV. Truth and Falsehood 265
XXV. The Validity of Inference 277
XXVI. Events, Matter, and Mind 287
XXVII. Man’s Place in the Universe 303
Index 313

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