Sceptical essays / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by John Gray.
Sceptical essays / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by John Gray.
Sceptical essays / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by John Gray.
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London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N149.73/14
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English
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xiii, 225 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction: On the Value of Scepticism -- 2. Dreams and Facts -- 3. Is Science Superstitious? -- 4. Can Men be Rational? -- 5. Philosophy in the Twentieth Century -- 6. Machines and the Emotions -- 7. Behaviourism and Values -- 8. Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness -- 9. The Harm that Good...
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London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2004.
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England
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2004.
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"With these words Bertrand Russell introduces what is indeed a revolutionary book. Taking as his starting point the irrationality of the world, he offers by contrast something 'wildly paradoxical and subversive' - a belief that reason should determine human actions. Unwittingly foreseeing the horrors that resulted in the ensuing years from the irra...
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Sceptical essays / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by John Gray.
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Routledge classics.
Includes index.
Originally published: London : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1996. With new pref.
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N149.73/14
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0415325080 (pbk.)
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149.73
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