Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

by Bertrand Russell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0092IY6II
• ISBN13: 9780415474443
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Strictly reserved for the serious

To my knowledge, one of the best books ever written. Russell's English has a wonderful, graceful clarity. But this is not an easy book to read. What does it mean to "know"? what do we know? how far can we be sure that we do in fact know? These are fundamental questions about human thought, and this book is an essential item in the library of anyone who is concerned with such questions.