Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

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Taylor & Francis, Mar 2, 2009 - Philosophy - 463 pages

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 continues to this day.

About the author (2009)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). The leading British Philosopher of the twentieth century, who made major contributions to the area of logic and epistemology. Politically active and habitually outspoken, his ethical principles twice lead to imprisonment

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TitleHuman Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
Routledge classics
AuthorBertrand Russell
Editionreprint
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 2009
ISBN0203875354, 9780203875353
Length463 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Logic
  
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