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AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY

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OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY

BY

BERTRAND RUSSELL

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN , LTD.

RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET , W. C. 1

First published in Great Britain 1927
Published and copyrighted in U.S.A. under the title "Philosophy"
All rights reserved

Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

Chap.		Page
I.	Philosophic Doubts	1
PART I
MAN FROM WITHOUT
II.	Man and his Environment	19
III.	The Process of Learning in Animals and Infants	32
IV.	Language	46
V.	Perception objectively regarded	61
VI.	Memory objectively regarded	73
VII.	Inference as a Habit	82
VIII.	Knowledge behaviouristically considered	91
PART II
THE PHYSICAL WORLD
IX.	The Structure of the Atom	103
X.	Relativity	113
XI.	Causal Laws in Physics	120
XII.	Physics and Perception	129
XIII.	Physical and Perceptual Space	143
XIV.	Perception and Physical Causal Laws	150
XV.	The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics	157
PART III
MAN FROM WITHIN
XVI.	Self-observation	169
XVII.	Images	184
XVIII.	Imagination and Memory	195
XIX.	The Introspective Analysis of Perception	209
XX.	Consciousness?	218
XXI.	Emotion, Desire, and Will	226
XXII.	Ethics	233
PART IV
THE UNIVERSE
XXIII.	Some Great Philosophers of the Past	247
XXIV.	Truth and Falsehood	265
XXV.	The Validity of Inference	277
XXVI.	Events, Matter, and Mind	287
XXVII.	Man’s Place in the Universe	303
	Index	313

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