Our Knowledge of the External World[我们对外部世界的认知]

图书标准信息

• 作者 Bertrand Russell（伯特兰·罗素） 著
• 出版社 Taylor & Francis—Routledge
• 出版时间 2009-02
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780415473774
• 定价 177.60元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 214页
• 正文语种 英语
• 丛书 Routledge

【内容简介】

Theveryrelevanceandlegitimacyofphilosophyisexaminedinthisexplosiveandcontroversialworkwhichinvestigatestherelationshipbetween‘individual’and‘scientific’knowledge,andquestionsthemeansbywhichwecometounderstandthephysicalworld.

【作者简介】

BertrandRussell(1872–1970)wasoneofthemostformidablethinkersofthemodernera.Aphilosopher,mathematician,educationalinnovator,championofintellectual,socialandsexualfreedom,andacampaignerforpeaceandhumanrights,hewasalsoaprolificwriterofpopularandinfluentialbooks,essaysandlecturesonanextensiverangeofsubjects.Consideredtobeoneofthemostcontroversialfiguresofthetwentiethcentury,BertrandRusselliswidelyrenownedforhisprovocativewritings.Thesedefinitiveworksofferprofoundinsightsandforward-thinkingperspectivesonachangingwesternsocietyprogressivelyshaped,mostsignificantly,bytwoworldwars,thedeclineofBritishimperialismandanevolvingmorallandscape.

【目录】

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

1 Current Tendencies

2 Logic as the Essence of Philosophy

3 On Our Knowledge of the External World

4 The World of Physics and the World of Sense

5 The Theory of Continuity

6 The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically

7 he Positive Theory of Infinity 

8 On the Notion of Cause,with Applications to the Free-Will Problem

NTOTES

INDEX