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Human Knowledge is Bertrand Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It presents a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by John G. Slater.
| Introduction | 9 | |
| Pt. I | The World of Science | |
| I | Individual and Social Knowledge | 17 |
| II | The Universe of Astronomy | 23 |
| III | The World of Physics | 29 |
| IV | Biological Evolution | 43 |
| V | The Physiology of Sensation and Volition | 51 |
| VI | The Science of Mind | 57 |
| Pt. II | Language | |
| I | The Uses of Language | 71 |
| II | Ostensive Definition | 78 |
| III | Proper Names | 87 |
| IV | Egocentric Particulars | 100 |
| V | Suspended Reactions: Knowledge and Belief | 109 |
| VI | Sentences | 119 |
| VII | External Reference of Ideas and Beliefs | 123 |
| VIII | Truth: Elementary Forms | 127 |
| IX | Logical Words and Falsehood | 136 |
| X | General Knowledge | 146 |
| XI | Fact, Belief, Truth, and Knowledge | 159 |
| Pt. III | Science and Perception | |
| I | Knowledge of Facts and Knowledge of Laws | 180 |
| II | Solipsism | 191 |
| III | Probable Inference in Common-sense Practice | 198 |
| IV | Physics and Experience | 211 |
| V | Time in Experience | 226 |
| VI | Space in Psychology | 233 |
| VII | Mind and Matter | 240 |
| Pt. IV | Scientific Concepts | |
| I | Interpretation | 251 |
| II | Minimum Vocabularies | 259 |
| III | Structure | 267 |
| IV | Structure and Minimum Vocabularies | 274 |
| V | Time, Public and Private | 284 |
| VI | Space in Classical Physics | 295 |
| VII | Space-Time | 305 |
| VIII | The Principle of Individuation | 310 |
| IX | Causal Laws | 326 |
| X | Space-time and Causality | 337 |
| Pt. V | Probability | |
| I | Kinds of Probability | 356 |
| II | Mathematical Probability | 362 |
| III | The Finite-Frequency Theory | 368 |
| IV | The Mises-Reichenbach Theory | 380 |
| V | Keynes's Theory of Probability | 390 |
| VI | Degrees of Credibility | 398 |
| VII | Probability and Induction | 418 |
| Pt. VI | Postulates of Scientific Inference | |
| I | Kinds of Knowledge | 439 |
| II | The Role of Induction | 451 |
| III | The Postulate of Natural Kinds | 456 |
| IV | Knowledge Transcending Experience | 463 |
| V | Causal Lines | 471 |
| VI | Structure and Causal Laws | 479 |
| VII | Interaction | 494 |
| VIII | Analogy | 501 |
| IX | Summary of Postulates | 506 |
| X | The Limits of Empiricism | 516 |
| Index | 528 |
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