Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 480
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Book Synopsis Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by : Bertrand Russell

Download or read book Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits written by Bertrand Russell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work investigates the relationship between ‘individual’ and ‘scientific’ knowledge. First published in 1948, this provocative work contributed significantly to an explosive intellectual discourse that continues to this day.


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