Our Knowledge of the External World As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Russell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440039496 ISBN 13 : 9781440039492

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Philosophy meets scientific method to test ideas about the external world. This book presents a clear path: bring logic, mathematics, and physics to bear on sense-data, space, time, and the nature of reality. It argues that careful analysis and definable concepts can make philosophy more reliable and testable.

Through accessible discussion, the text outlines how researchers can replace vague assumptions with precise ideas, while showing where traditional views may fall short. The approach aims to connect philosophical questions with the methods that power science, without sacrificing clarity or accessibility.

• How sense-data can be organized into particles, points, and instants for analysis


• The role of logic, mathematics, and physics in shaping philosophical method


• Continuity, space, time, and the influence of historic problems like Zeno’s arguments


• A practical framework for building a disciplined, testable philosophy

Ideal for readers who want a rigorous, approachable bridge between philosophy and the sciences.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The following lectures1 are an attempt to show, by means of examples, the nature, capacity, and limitations of the logical-analytic method in philosophy. This method, of which the first complete example is to be found in the writings ofF rege, has gradually, in the course of actual research, increasingly forced itself upon me as something perfectly definite, capable of embodiment in maxims, and adequate, in all branches of philosophy, to yield whatever objective scientific knowledge it is possible to obtain. Most of the methods hitherto practised have professed to lead to more ambitious results than any that logical analysis can claim to reach, but unfortunately these results have always been such as many competent philosophers considered inadmissible. Regarded merely as hypotheses and as aids to imagination, the great systems of the past serve a very useful purpose, and are abundantly worthy of study. But something different is required if philosophy is to become a science, and to aim at results independent of the tastes and temperament of the philosopher who advocates them. In what follows, I have endeavoured to show, however imperfectly, the way by which I believe that this desideratum is to be found. The central problem by which I have sought to illustrate method is the problem of the relation between the crude data of sense and the space, time, and matter of 1D elivered asL owell Lectures in Boston, in March and A pril 1914.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440039496
• ISBN 13: 9781440039492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible