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Paperback. Series: CSLI - Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 281 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic brings together ten new essays on Russell's best-known work, The Problems of Philosophy. These essays, by some of the foremost scholars of his life and works, reexamine Russell's famous distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance" and "knowledge by description," his developing views about our knowledge of physical reality, and his views about our knowledge of logic, mathematics, and other abstract matters. In addition, this volume includes an editors' introduction, which summarizes Russell's ... Read more
Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic brings together ten new essays on Russell's best-known work, The Problems of Philosophy. These essays, by some of the foremost scholars of his life and works, reexamine Russell's famous distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance" and "knowledge by description," his developing views about our knowledge of physical reality, and his views about our knowledge of logic, mathematics, and other abstract matters. In addition, this volume includes an editors' introduction, which summarizes Russell's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Centre for the Study of Language & Information United States
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
Series
CSLI - Lecture Notes
Number of Pages
281
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781575868462
SKU
V9781575868462
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Donovan Wishon is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi. Bernard Linsky is professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Russell's Metaphysical Logic, also published by CSLI Publications, and The Evolution of Principia Mathematica: Bertrand Russell's Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition. ... Read more
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