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The Problems of Philosophy

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What’s it about?

Bertrand Russell dismantles our naive confidence in knowledge, revealing a world of sense-data, universals, and necessary truths that is far stranger and more thrilling than common sense admits.

You’ll learn

  • Distinguish sense-data from physical objects
  • Know the reality of universals
  • Understand the correspondence theory of truth
  • Embrace philosophy's unsettling questions