The Problems of Philosophy Illustrated By Bertrand Russell
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<p>THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY offers students the most important selections from the most influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. The aim of this text is to provide an overview of those issues and problems that philosophers have grappled with throughout the centuries The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.</p>
The Problems of Philosophy Illustrated By Bertrand Russell Bertrand Russell
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<p>THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY offers students the most important selections from the most influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. The aim of this text is to provide an overview of those issues and problems that philosophers have grappled with throughout the centuries The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.</p>