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Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1981 - Religion - 167 pages
The titile essay of this collection suggests that Bertrand Russell's lifelong preoccupation: the disentanglement, with ever-increasing precision, of what is subjective or intellectualy cloudy from what is objective or capable of logical demonstration. The first five essays he calls 'entirely popular': they include two on the revolutionary changes in mathematics in the last hundred years, and one on the value of science in human culture. The last five, 'somewhat more technical', are concerned with particular problems of philosophy: the ultimate nature of matter, the connection between the sense-data and physics, the problem of casuality and different ways of knowing. In these one can see the Russell method in operation, intellectual analysis dissecting the problem to its bare bones.
  

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Contents

Mysticism and Logic
9
The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
31
A Free Mans Worship
40
The Study of Mathematics
48
Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
59
On Scientific Method in Philosophy
75
The Ultimate Constituents of Matter
94
The Relation of Sensedata to Physics
108
On the Notion of Cause
132
Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description
152
INDEX
168
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About the author (1981)

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was born in England and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His long career established him as one of the most influential philosophers, mathematicians, and social reformers of the twentieth century.

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TitleMysticism and Logic, and Other Essays
AuthorBertrand Russell
Edition2, reprint
PublisherRowman & Littlefield, 1981
ISBN0389201359, 9780389201359
Length167 pages
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