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One of his great works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russell's thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning with this question: Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This, according to Russell, is where the work of phi...more

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Published September 1st 1988 by Prometheus Books (first published 1912)

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Jun 22, 2012 Manny marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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Plato, in the Symposium, was perhaps the first person to consider the question of the "unliked review". If a review never receives any votes, can it truly be said to exist? This problem has tormented many of the world's greatest philosophers. Bishop Berkeley's famous answer is that God reads and likes every review, hence they all exist. Even at the time, this was not universally considered satisfactory; Rousseau's reply, le compte de Dieu est privé, is widely quoted as the standard objection. In...more

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Nov 12, 2010 Elliot rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Ah, how exhilerating! To a most amateur novice in philosophy, Bertrand Russell's brief discussion of epistemology serves as a remarkably inspiring text: he both summarizes what I have found so invigorating about skeptical analysis of the universe and encourages me to pursue my understanding of the world further: Go! Question! Think! Understand!

Throughout my reading, I was torn between racing through the text, drawn from one sentence to the next as if pulled by some powerful philosophical magnet,...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Giorgi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

there is the one greatest problem for humanity to define a real problem i will follow Russelian problems

1. problem of reality does this world really exist or is it real what we think about reality, you need to have a great emegenation to think about it.

2. i am reading review how do i know that it is matter i can see computer how do i know that it really exist ,only philosoper can to create that kind problem.

3.is my sense real we are looking from some posicion how do we know about matter of phisi...more

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Mar 22, 2008 Mark rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is Russell reviewing his philosophical foundations. The Problems of Philosophy is a good, short overview of basic philosophical questions. For example, the relationship between reality and appearance. Russell introduces the reader to metaphysics, epistemology, and logic.

For readers who have no experience reading philosophy, this is a good introduction to basic philosophical scepticism.
The book is short, this edition is pg. 161, and so any difficulty in reading it can be endured. For begin...more

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May 24, 2012 Tyler rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an incredibly good book for somebody just getting started to learn about epistemology. I don't think Russell delves too much into anything else like metaphysics, certainly not logic, art, or ethics. His focus is on epistemology. If knowledge is possible, if a priori knowledge is possible, comparing the rationalist and empiricists, etc.

What I love most about this book is that it reaches a conclusion. Many philosophers prefer to just show the examples of other philosophers ideas but Russel...more

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Jan 22, 2011 Tim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The title’s a misnomer – the book is almost exclusively about epistemology, or theory of knowledge. This reflects the narrowing of philosophy’s scope in the English-speaking world 100 years ago, eventually making itself more or less a subdiscipline of linguistics (a self-imposed constriction which has only fairly recently been loosened). But Russell treats his subject with characteristic lucidity; the clarity and precision of his logic and phrasing have a certain austere beauty, if that’s the ri...more The title’s a misnomer – the book is almost exclusively about epistemology, or theory of knowledge. This reflects the narrowing of philosophy’s scope in the English-speaking world 100 years ago, eventually making itself more or less a subdiscipline of linguistics (a self-imposed constriction which has only fairly recently been loosened). But Russell treats his subject with characteristic lucidity; the clarity and precision of his logic and phrasing have a certain austere beauty, if that’s the right word. And his formulation and theoretical contributions have their own value, as do his observations and critiques. Unfortunately he rarely shows his considerable wit in this relatively early work.

To a large extent this is a restatement and synthesis of classical British Empiricist epistemology with some refinements and twists of Russell’s own, which are the products of his work in mathematics and logic as well as his critical evaluations of earlier philosophers’ ideas. The result is a very clear, concise, precise, but also carefully worked-out and thorough theory of knowledge. His distinction of knowledge by acquaintance vs. by description, and his treatments of induction, a priori knowledge, knowledge of universals, and what he calls intuitive knowledge (i.e. of self-evident things) are particularly valuable. It’s interesting to note that Russell thinks Plato was largely on track with his Theory of Forms (Ideas), while Kant blew it in his epistemology and Hegel blew it in general. You might say Russell’s agreement with Plato makes him a neo-empiricist, at least at this point in his career.

In the second last chapter he explains why his scope is so limited, substantially paralleling A.J. Ayer’s contention that nothing meaningful can be said and nothing known about metaphysics; and that philosophy is only properly concerned with clarifying terms and statements, and with assessing the validity of arguments. Russell doesn’t exactly say this and perhaps doesn’t go quite this far, but he’s close.

Then in the last chapter he takes a bold leap and makes a number of statements about the purpose and value of philosophy and how life should be lived. Having avoided ethics and largely avoided metaphysics while working through theory of knowledge with his constricted logical precision, he now abandons rational argument in favor of rhetoric and dives headlong into the fearful abyss. Needless to say he doesn’t attempt to prove anything he says in this chapter as he’s spent much of the book trying to demonstrate why these types of statements are indefensible. Maybe there’s more consistency and validity in this chapter than what I see and I’ve just missed it, but it seems pretty out of tune with the rest of the book. It’s nevertheless still pretty well written and fairly compelling. It would have been nice if Russell had tried to treat this material by the same methods he used previously, or else had tried to explain what alternate approach was reasonable and why. Apparently even Bertrand Russell had some hair to let down, but it does seem like an odd coda to a rigorously logical and self-limited piece of early 20th c. analytic philosophy.(less)

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Oct 15, 2010 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The strengths of this book are that it is short and very well-written. Of all philosophical writers, Russell might be the best stylist. As much fun as Nietzsche or Plato can be at times—and I've heard Plato called the most brilliant classical Greek prose stylist, although I'm not fully qualified to judge—they are not as simple, clear, and well-organized as Russell.

The book furnishes a fine introduction to the problems of modern philosophy, especially the issues that were preoccupying Anglo-Ameri...more

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Mar 17, 2012 Yann rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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J'avais reçu ce livre à 18 ans, sans jamais avoir eu le courage de le lire, et il a fallu attendre des lustres avant que je sois en état de m'y intéresser. Dans cet ouvrage, Bertrand Russel, un philosophe anglais écrit à la veille du premier conflit mondial au sujet de connaissance, reprenant un thème ouvert depuis le Théétète de Platon. Comme presque tous les philosophe anglais, il met un point d'honneur à exposer ses idées avec clarté, afin de les mettre à la portée du plus grand nombre, sans...more J'avais reçu ce livre à 18 ans, sans jamais avoir eu le courage de le lire, et il a fallu attendre des lustres avant que je sois en état de m'y intéresser. Dans cet ouvrage, Bertrand Russel, un philosophe anglais écrit à la veille du premier conflit mondial au sujet de connaissance, reprenant un thème ouvert depuis le Théétète de Platon. Comme presque tous les philosophe anglais, il met un point d'honneur à exposer ses idées avec clarté, afin de les mettre à la portée du plus grand nombre, sans s'abriter derrière un jargon effrayant pour le non spécialiste, et qui fait toujours tort à l'auteur qui y a recours car il le rend suspect d'imposture, et engendre une infinité de querelles entre les commentateurs, avide de montrer la supériorité de leur jugement, qui ne manquent pas de pulluler. Un langage clair, un souci didactique, de nombreux exemples pour illustrer les différents concepts auxquels il a recours, toutes ces qualités rendent la lecture aisée et permettent de se concentrer sur le fond sans s'embarrasser avec la forme. Malgré cela, je n'ai pas été convaincu par toutes les idées avancées par l'auteur, et on retrouve les grands classiques de la philosophie : les fines distinctions, deus ex machina, qui permettent de résoudre des situations embarrassantes, l'exposé partiel et partial des idées des autres auteurs, afin de détruire leurs positions, le recours à l'évidence et autres pétitions de principe, mais là n'est pas l'essentiel, car on consolide nos idées à démonter les sophismes que l'on détecte, ce qui n'est pas moins important que d'en acquérir de nouvelles. Dans la préface de l'édition allemande parue postérieurement, il renie une partie de ses positions, ces dernières ayant évolué au contact de son ami Whitehead, et peu être aussi de son élève Wittgenstein. Il expose aussi un vibrant plaidoyer en faveur de la philosophie, qui ne manquera pas de toucher tout ceux qui mettent du cœur à mettre leur cervelle à l'alambic, et qui parfois se demandent s'ils ne feraient pas mieux laisser toutes ces nuées pour jouir de l'instant présent.(less)

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Jan 12, 2010 Adam Kranz rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone looking to become interested in philosophy

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"The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason."

While this book isn't exactly what I had been led to believe (i.e., a short examination of several Big Problems in Philosophy), it is excellent at what it does: clearly and simply introduce epistemology. While I don't...more

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Mar 13, 2010 Matt Evans rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I actually read this twice, almost three times. I came to this by way of an article I'd read somewhere in the last three months, which article made a distinction between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description.' Russell addresses this matter in Chapter V. So, that's what I'd read first, online (you can find the whole book online, albeit riddled with typos, which make for rather slow going at times). Once I'd read that chapter, I had to read the book.

According to many Goodreads...more I actually read this twice, almost three times. I came to this by way of an article I'd read somewhere in the last three months, which article made a distinction between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description.' Russell addresses this matter in Chapter V. So, that's what I'd read first, online (you can find the whole book online, albeit riddled with typos, which make for rather slow going at times). Once I'd read that chapter, I had to read the book.

According to many Goodreads reviews of Russell's PoP, this is a fairly easy book. Easy, they say? Easy!

Hardly. (At least not easy for those, like me, who've never really studied philosophy.) I'd like to raise a finger of defiance here to these 'Easy Readers,' these Dennis Hoppers and Peter Fondas on their Harley Davidsons of the mind, roaring down the information superhighway, intellectual wind in their hair.

In direct contrast to these, I slogged through Russell's PoP on the mental equivalent of a homemade skateboard with tin-can wheels. I would read a chapter and barely understand it; only on the second or third reading would the information 'pop' or coalesce into something comprehensible. And exciting, frankly. My mind got stronger as I went/read along.

Here's the book's last paragraph:

"Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy: Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good."

My favorite quote, though, came near the beginning -- at the end of Chapter One, to be exact. "Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface of even the commonest things of daily life."

This "strangeness and wonder" immanent in the humdrum things of daily life is exactly what I learned to see in the chapters between these two quotes. I highly, highly recommend this book.(less)

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Dec 04, 2012 Patrick rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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'Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?' Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal with them in ordinary life, but critically, after analysing how and why the questions arise and clarifying the assumptions and concepts on which they are based. This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory o...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Brandon rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

One of the first classic works of philosophy I read as a whole, as opposed to merely excerpts in my first-year textbook. It is very dated now, being 100 years old, but it is interesting both as a historical document and as an introduction to some of the concerns of twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy, and in some cases, philosophy throughout history.

Russell's prose is simple and easy to understand, but quite often the conclusions he reaches which he believes to be obvious or intuitive ha...more

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Jan 26, 2008 Zac rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everyone above high school reading level

Recommended to Zac by: Brian Magee (a philosopher whom I don't know, but I read one of

What an exciting book. Russell is not only a great philosopher, but also a great writer, and this short book is a perfect example. I recommend this book to all, especially those with any interest what so ever in the limits of our knowledge and the nature of reality. If one doesn't think they have any interest in philosophy, after reading this book, I'm sure they will.

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Mar 05, 2013 Simon rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I read this thirty years ago as an under graduate and have re-read it to see if I can still follow the reasoning and to act as a refresher course. I loved it then and I love it now. I know of no other book where the voice of the author comes through with such clarity and such care and such desire that you understand what he is talking about. He admits himself that the work of Einstein left it as much of an historical as philosophical work. It stands though as a remarkable exercise in explaining...more

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May 28, 2012 Jeremiah Tillman rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Although I think Russell's work has become passé, I think of myself as a fan. Russell is most likely out of style because he only used logic as a means for whatever his own end was, thus he ended up giving it up. Plus the other portion of his philosophical thought, i.e. this form of hyperbolic empiricism in conjunction with language, maybe what we call 'logical atomism' seems to be irrelevant today. Sure, there's descriptive knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance. Sure, it is the epistemology b...more Although I think Russell's work has become passé, I think of myself as a fan. Russell is most likely out of style because he only used logic as a means for whatever his own end was, thus he ended up giving it up. Plus the other portion of his philosophical thought, i.e. this form of hyperbolic empiricism in conjunction with language, maybe what we call 'logical atomism' seems to be irrelevant today. Sure, there's descriptive knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance. Sure, it is the epistemology behind Russell's theory of description. But what does it mean? What does it mean for my particular understanding of both language and the empirical world? Russell imbues his own ideas into the Problems of Philosophy, but he never addresses their meaning. Perhaps their meaning should be apparent. I understand that Russell is not one of those philosophers primarily concerned with meaning and one's particular existence, but he IS in the vein of the ancients in the respect that he is turning to the world and attempting to understand it as it is. Russell knows, like his pupil Wittgenstein, that philosophy's aim is not to make up new systems of philosophy, but to understand the world as he found it (;D). I think that delineating this philosophy of knowledge by acquaintance and description in terms of one's own meaning and existence is of the utmost importance. But then again, I can't beat up Russell for this point as it is just simply NOT on his agenda.

Concerning The Problems of Philosophy itself as an introduction of philosophy, it's fine. I hate philosophy introductions and I think they're sophistry for the most part. If you want to learn philosophy, you should just read the texts themselves, why read someone else's interpretation of it? Philosophy is probably the most individual things ever, so much so that if one follows another's philosophy, it becomes and ideology. Thus I recommend staying away from the introductions. They could be an all right reference, but more often than not you'll gain much more understanding from the original text the problems came from. Russell knows this and that's why he recommends some books in the back. I think that ultimately, The Problems of Philosophy is a platform for Russell's own philosophy in the context of the tradition. Maybe that's a self righteous act, but it goes smoothly and is persuasive. (less)

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May 08, 2012 Warren rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I had some issues really getting into this book.

Maybe it's just that it was a dry writing style, or maybe it's that it doesn't seem to be a good starting point for someone who wants to learn about philosophy. But it took many weeks to get through what is actually a short book.

It does have some good points, like at the end (at least in the Amazon free e-book) recommending other philosophers to read. And it tries to tie in analogies to history and to Othello (which I also haven't read.)

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Jan 08, 2013 Dodecahedron rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Bertrand Russell was a renown and respected scientist, social activist and philosopher. He was quite a prolific author and among his long list of works is a relatively brief introductory work called The Problems of Philosophy. It is well within the public domain and thus freely available as an ebook through Project Gutenberg and as an audiobook through Librivox. The book is exactly what it sounds like: it is a summary of the different problems that philosophers attempt to tackle. Among them is h...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Danns rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a great primer to get me back into philosophy. Although I will say it is not a book one should start with if she or he would want to learn more about philosophy. As such, it does provide a great bridge from the pioneers of Western Philosophy to the more modern advocates.

The book itself is not a very easy read and one can easily get lost and have to re-read some paragraphs a few times to begin to grasp what Ruessell is saying. While most content is a pretty clear read, the topics a...more

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Apr 22, 2010 I Read rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Gosh the life of a philosopher must be complicated; all that intense and intricate thinking about even the simplest of things! :) I don’t doubt many of ‘the big questions’ have been helped to be answered by this subject, but I must admit during reading this book “hair-splitting” (to use one of the author’s perfectly suited descriptions) did come to mind.

If I’m honest, the best bits for me were the first and last chapters! The in-between didn’t interest me so much, but I don’t regret reading it b...more

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Jan 28, 2010 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A fantastic and lucidly written primer on the major endeavors, or problems, that philosophy not only presents but also attempts to explain. Russell is brilliant at intertwining the language of philosophy with common terminology and poignant examples that are easily understood by all. I would highly recommend reading this book if you have any desire to start studying philosophy or any curiosity at all regarding philosophical aims. It would also make a great apologia, of sorts, for anyone who migh...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Huda AbuKhoti rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This book gives no answers... It asks and intrigues a multiple of questions and doesn't expect you to have answers for them, either.

Beautifully written and easy to read. It mainly discusses the differences between appearance or perspective and reality, and how truth to us humans is either collected by description or acquaintance.

This question I had no answer to after I finished reading the book: If I become acquainted with something over time, and I started giving descriptions and characteristi...more

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Apr 21, 2007 Nat rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The chapter on truth and falsehood is perfect for introducing students to debates about substantial theories of truth (he criticizes the coherence theory and introduces his own correspondence theory). It's short, clear, and pithy.

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Sep 26, 2011 Jigar Brahmbhatt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was always interesting to read Russell, the surest of all writers I have ever read. Reading him, I used to feel that even emotional problems can be solved by studying respective statistical data! It took me various re-readings of Sartre and Camus to come out of his grip. But that aside, I think that to understand such epidemiological concepts as Idealism, Rationalism, the limits of knowledge et al, Russell's short book is a really helpful guide. I owe a beautiful leather-bind copy of this boo...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Jimerekson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Despite being really short in length, this book had a profound impact on me. It reawakened an interest in philosophy that I'd left behind almost a decade earlier. It spends a great deal of time on the first-semester philosophy questions: how do we know anything? What do we know about things like tables and chairs and papers that we work with all the time? And while this may seem like pointless nonsense, the work really crescendos as we get into Russell's formulation for what it means for a state...more

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Jan 03, 2010 Brian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book presented a very brief overview of some philosophical ideas. Some of it was interesting, but much of it reminded me why I was turned off by the one philosophy class I took during college. A lot of the explanations seem to be little more than tortured semantic hand-waving. Not really his fault, since he is explaining (and in some cases refuting) earlier ideas.

In the chapter "The Limits of Philosophic Knowledge", he acknowledges that "there is no special source of wisdom which is open to...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Vijay rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this concise book, Russell has tried his best to introduce few of the basic philosophical topics, although they are restricted to certain schools of philosophy. For a beginner, like me, this book would be a good start to understand the know-hows of philosophy. The book is blessed with a very good flow. Beginning with Appearance and Reality, where Russel makes you think of the very obvious things which you never thought worth thinking and thus nurturing philosophical mind, he takes us to the e...more

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Dec 08, 2008 Terry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Those in need of an introduction to rigorous philosophy

Bertrand Russell was a tower in 20th century philosophy, not in his methodology or discoveries but in his interactions with the public. The Problems of Philosophy is easy to read and follows a tradition of systematic philosophy that restricts itself strongly to things that re provable or at a minimum very probable.

Much of the book focuses on what types of information are encountered whether they be particulars or universals and how we can interact and use that information. His later chapters lay...more

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Mar 30, 2013 S.J. Pettersson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Bertrand Russell writes about the "Problems of Philosophy". As a logician and mathematician he must surely have known that his title presupposes that there actually are philosophical problems. Thankfully his friend and colleague Ludwig Wittgenstein proved him wrong and showed us how philosophical problems are solved by "dissolving" their linguistic and grammatical Gordian knots. As a consequence Wittgenstein died relatively young and was on occasion know to have taken to the fire poker in anger...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Craig Williams rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The problems of philosophy? It's confusing as shit. There, I summed it up, and didn't even have to publish a book about it.

This book disappointed the hell out of me. I absolutely loved Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian", but maybe that is because he's talking about a subject I'm more familiar with, in a prose that is much more casual. This book went over my head from chapter one, but then again, I don't read very many philosophy books (and now I know why). The subject matter is just too abstra...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Charles Rutter rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nothing is gained by reading this work. If you want epistemology start (and stay) elsewhere. Other than generalizations and vague statements (all "a priori knowledge is of universals") there is not much here in the way of original thought. His conclusion sounds more like the flourish of a sweeping conclusion in an undergraduate's paper in Philosophy 101, "Thus, to sum up our discussion of the value of philosophy; Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questi...more

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