Human Knowledge: Its Scope And Limits
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What can humanity truly know — and where does that knowledge end? In Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Bertrand Russell undertakes one of the most ambitious philosophical investigations of the twentieth century, arguing that the foundations of scientific knowledge rest on principles that cannot themselves be empirically verified. With characteristic rigour and lucid prose, Russell examines the relationship between individual experience and the broader body of scientific inference, dissecting the assumptions that underpin our understanding of the physical world, causality, probability, and the nature of mind. A landmark work in analytic philosophy, this volume cements Russell's reputation as one of the foremost philosophical minds of the modern era, sitting confidently alongside his earlier masterworks such as The Problems of Philosophy and An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. Russell writes with a rare combination of mathematical precision and accessible clarity, making formidable epistemological terrain navigable without sacrificing intellectual depth. For anyone who has ever paused to wonder whether science truly *proves* anything at all, this book issues a challenge that remains startlingly unanswered.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, George Allen and Unwin Ltd
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
What can humanity truly know — and where does that knowledge end? In Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, Bertrand Russell undertakes one of the most ambitious philosophical investigations of the twentieth century, arguing that the foundations of scientific knowledge rest on principles that cannot themselves be empirically verified. With characteristic rigour and lucid prose, Russell examines the relationship between individual experience and the broader body of scientific inference, dissecting the assumptions that underpin our understanding of the physical world, causality, probability, and the nature of mind. A landmark work in analytic philosophy, this volume cements Russell's reputation as one of the foremost philosophical minds of the modern era, sitting confidently alongside his earlier masterworks such as The Problems of Philosophy and An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. Russell writes with a rare combination of mathematical precision and accessible clarity, making formidable epistemological terrain navigable without sacrificing intellectual depth. For anyone who has ever paused to wonder whether science truly *proves* anything at all, this book issues a challenge that remains startlingly unanswered.