ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
part |46 pages
The World of Science
chapter |5 pages
Individual and Social Knowledge
chapter |5 pages
The Universe of Astronomy
chapter |12 pages
The World of Physics
chapter |7 pages
Biological Evolution
chapter |6 pages
The Physiology of Sensation and Volition
chapter |9 pages
The Science of Mind
part |90 pages
Language
chapter |6 pages
The Uses of Language
chapter |8 pages
Ostensive Definition
chapter |11 pages
Proper Names
chapter |8 pages
Egocentric Particulars
chapter |8 pages
Suspended Reactions: Knowledge and Belief
chapter |3 pages
Sentences
chapter |3 pages
External Reference of Ideas and Beliefs
chapter |8 pages
Truth: Elementary Forms
chapter |9 pages
Logical Words and Falsehood
chapter |11 pages
General Knowledge
chapter |13 pages
Fact, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge
part |62 pages
Science and Perception
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter |9 pages
Knowledge of Facts and Knowledge of Laws
chapter |6 pages
Solipsism
chapter |11 pages
Probable Inference in Common-Sense Practice
chapter |12 pages
Physics and Experience
chapter |6 pages
Time in Experience
chapter |6 pages
Space in Psychology
chapter |7 pages
Mind and Matter
part |85 pages
Scientific Concepts
chapter |7 pages
Interpretation
chapter |6 pages
Minimum Vocabularies
chapter |6 pages
Structure
chapter |8 pages
Structure and Minimum Vocabularies
chapter |9 pages
Time, Public and Private
chapter |8 pages
Space in Classical Physics
chapter |5 pages
Space–Time
chapter |14 pages
The Principle of Individuation
chapter |9 pages
Causal Laws
chapter |11 pages
Space–Time and Causality
part |78 pages
Probability
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter |5 pages
Kinds of Probability
chapter |6 pages
Mathematical Probability
chapter |11 pages
The Finite-Frequency Theory
chapter |9 pages
The Mises–Reichenbach Theory
chapter |8 pages
Keynes's Theory of Probability
chapter |17 pages
Degrees of Credibility
chapter |17 pages
Probability and Induction
part |78 pages
Postulates of Scientific Inference