Book

Philosophy

by Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

29 chapters, about 103,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PHILOSOPHIC DOUBTS 5,000 words
2. MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT 4,600 words
3. THE PROCESS OF LEARNING IN ANIMALS AND INFANTS 4,200 words
4. LANGUAGE 5,000 words
5. PERCEPTION OBJECTIVELY REGARDED 4,300 words
6. MEMORY OBJECTIVELY REGARDED 3,000 words
7. INFERENCE AS A HABIT 3,000 words
8. KNOWLEDGE BEHAVIOURISTICALLY CONSIDERED 3,000 words
9. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM 3,200 words
10. RELATIVITY 2,300 words
11. CAUSAL LAWS IN PHYSICS 3,100 words
12. PHYSICS AND PERCEPTION 4,900 words
13. PHYSICAL AND PERCEPTUAL SPACE 2,500 words
14. PERCEPTION AND PHYSICAL CAUSAL LAWS 2,500 words
15. THE NATURE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICS 3,300 words
16. SELF-OBSERVATION 5,400 words
17. IMAGES 3,600 words
18. IMAGINATION AND MEMORY 4,800 words
19. THE INTROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTION 3,000 words
20. CONSCIOUSNESS? 2,800 words
21. EMOTION, DESIRE, AND WILL 2,400 words
22. ETHICS 4,000 words
23. SOME GREAT PHILOSOPHIES OF THE PAST 6,400 words
24. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD 4,100 words
25. THE VALIDITY OF INFERENCE 3,500 words
26. EVENTS, MATTER, AND MIND 5,400 words
27. MAN’S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE 3,600 words
28. INDEX 500 words
29. NORTON BOOKS 300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• A
• Action at a distance
• Atom
• Awareness
• Brain
• Chemist
• Desire
• Electron
• Ethics
• Ethics (journal)
• Event (philosophy)
• Imagination
• Inference
• Interval (music)
• Introspection
• Language
• Matter
• Memory
• Mental event
• Mind
• Molecule
• Momentum
• Napoleon
• Observation
• Perception
• Philosophy (journal)
• Phobia
• Physics
• Solipsism
• Theory

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