PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY
By
Bertrand Russell
NEW YORK
W · W · NORTON & COMPANY, INC.
Publishers
Copyright, 1927,
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Published in Great Britain under the title “An Outline of Philosophy”
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FOR THE PUBLISHERS BY THE VAN REES PRESS
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Philosophic Doubts | [1] |
| PART I | ||
| MAN FROM WITHOUT | ||
| II. | Man and His Environment | [16] |
| III. | The Process of Learning in Animals and Infants | [29] |
| IV. | Language | [43] |
| V. | Perception Objectively Regarded | [58] |
| VI. | Memory Objectively Regarded | [70] |
| VII. | Inference as a Habit | [79] |
| VIII. | Knowledge Behaviouristically Considered | [88] |
| PART II | ||
| THE PHYSICAL WORLD | ||
| IX. | The Structure of the Atom | [97] |
| X. | Relativity | [107] |
| XI. | Causal Laws in Physics | [114] |
| XII. | Physics and Perception | [123] |
| XIII. | Physical and Perceptual Space | [137] |
| XIV. | Perception and Physical Causal Laws | [144] |
| XV. | The Nature of Our Knowledge of Physics | [151] |
| PART III | ||
| MAN FROM WITHIN | ||
| XVI. | Self-observation | [161] |
| XVII. | Images | [176] |
| XVIII. | Imagination and Memory | [187] |
| XIX. | The Introspective Analysis of Perception | [201] |
| XX. | Consciousness? | [210] |
| XXI. | Emotion, Desire, and Will | [218] |
| XXII. | Ethics | [225] |
| PART IV | ||
| THE UNIVERSE | ||
| XXIII. | Some Great Philosophies of the Past | [236] |
| XXIV. | Truth and Falsehood | [254] |
| XXV. | The Validity of Inference | [266] |
| XXVI. | Events, Matter, and Mind | [276] |
| XXVII. | Man’s Place in the Universe | [292] |