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Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell attempts to analyze the relationship of the crude data of our senses to the notions of physics such as space, time, and matter. Russell takes his analysis to illustrate the method of logical analysis used to such wonderful effect by thinkers in the late nineteenth-century to the notions of continuity, infinity, and the infinitesimal. These analyses effected a new epoch of clarity in the philosophy of mathematics; Russell hopes that a similar new age of clarity can be effected in the rest of philosophy through logical analysis; here, he undertakes the first stages of this analysis in the philosophy of physics. Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind.

Year of Publication: 1914Genres: Modern , Philosophy

Running Time: 08 hours 12 minutes 59 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Preface Landon D. C. Elkind	5:18
2	Current Tendencies Landon D. C. Elkind	1:00:55
3	Logic as the Essence of Philosophy Landon D. C. Elkind	57:00
4	On Our Knowledge of the External World Landon D. C. Elkind	1:12:13
5	The World of Physics and the World of Sense Landon D. C. Elkind	1:00:39
6	The Theory of Continuity Landon D. C. Elkind	51:13
7	The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically Landon D. C. Elkind	1:04:41
8	The Positive Theory of Infinity Landon D. C. Elkind	51:16
9	On the Notion of Cause, with Applications to the Free-Will Problem Landon D. C. Elkind	1:09:44