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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