An Outline of Philosophy

By Bertrand Russell

Book Overview

By examining the way we acquire knowledge of the world around us, Russell explores what separates scientific knowledge from our 'seeming' consciousness, and in doing so, significantly advances the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415141176
• ISBN13: 9780415141178
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A readable outline

The definition of philosophy varies according to the philosophy we adopt, says Russell. So then --- there are some general problems which people find interesting, and which do not belong to any of the special sciences, and these problems raise doubts about what we consider knowledge. The definition and exploration of this problems is philosophy. With this introduction, Russell discusses some problems: the physical world, man from without (environment), man from within (consciousness, emotions, ethics etc) and so on. An outline is clearly limited, and Russell does not include many branches of philosophical enquiry such as metaphysical inquiry and some aspects of authority and state. But within its constraints, the book is still a good read.