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]

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