Project Gutenberg #5827
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
1912Russell's concise introduction to philosophy's central questions, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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PREFACE
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Preface Central question Why focus this book on positive, constructive philosophical problems? Main argument Russell says he will concentrate on questions where philosophy can say something useful, especially...
In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all.
I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray.
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