The Problems of Philosophy

Produktbeschreibung

Clear and accessible, this little book is an intelligible and stimulating guide to those problems of philosophy which often mistakenly make the subject seem too lofty and abstruse for the lay mind. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Preface
1: Appearance and Reality
2: The Existence of Matter
3: The Nature of Matter
4: Idealism
5: Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
6: On Induction
7: On Our Knowledge of General Principles
8: How A Priori Knowledge is Possible
9: The World of Universals
10: On Our Knowledge of Universals
11: On Intuitive Knowledge
12: Truth and Falsehood
13: Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion
14: The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge
15: The Value of Philosophy
Bibliographical Note
Appendix: Foreword to the German Edition
Guide to Further Reading 

Autoreninfo

Bertrand Russell was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His primary interest was in the foundations of mathematics, and his three-volume Principia Mathematica (written with Alfred North Whitehead) is the classic attempt to carry out the programme of deriving the whole of mathematics from a set of simple, self-evident truths. He also wrote widely on other areas of philosophy, and published a large number of writings on social and moral issues.

John Skorupski is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, and author of English-Language Philosophy 1750-1945 (1993) and John Stuart Mill (1989).