Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Philosophy, Modern

Authors: Bertrand Russell In Year : 1918

Book Language: English

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Preface
Mysticism and Logic
The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
A Free Man's Worship
The Study of Mathematics
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
On Scientific Method in Philosophy
The Ultimate Constituents of Matter
The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 1)
The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 2)
On the Notion of Cause
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description

This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in mathematics could be applied to the solution of ancient philosophical problems. Many of the subsequent essays show the evolution of this hope as Russell worked on the foundations of mathematics and applied the new methods to the reconstruction of physical objects on the basis of sense-data, and the redefinition of matter and cause. (Landon D. C. Elkind)