The Problems of Philosophy Author:Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exis... more »t, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.
About Russell:
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 ? 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense". He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.« less