Chapter I: Front Matter

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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

PHILOSOPHY