Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition John G. Slater
Preface
1. The Nature of the Problem
Part 1: The Logical Analysis of Physics
2. Pre-Relativity Physics
3. Electrons and Protons
4. The Theory of Quanta
5. The Special Theory of Relativity
6. The General Theory of Relativity
7. The Method of Tensors
8. Geodesics
9. Invariants and Their Physical Interpretation
10. Weyl’s Theory
11. The Principle of Differential Laws
12. Measurement
13. Matter and Space
14. The Abstractness of Physics
Part 2: Physics and Perception
15. From Primitive Perception to Common Sense
16. From Common Sense to Physics
17. What is an Empirical Science
18. Our Knowledge of Particular Matters of Fact
19. Data, Inferences, Hypotheses, and Theories
20. The Causal Theory of Perception
21. Perception and Objectivity
22. The Belief in General Laws
23. Substance
24. Importance of Structure in Scientific Inference
25. Perception From the Standpoint of Physics
26. Non-Mental Analogues to Perception
Part 3: The Structure of the Physical World
27. Particulars and Events
28. The Construction of Points
29. Space-Time Order
30. Causal Lines
31. Extrinsic Causal Laws
32. Physical and Perceptual Space-Time
33. Periodicity and Qualitative Series
34. Types of Physical Occurrences
35. Causality and Interval
36. The Genesis of Space-Time
37. Physics and Neutral Monism
38. Summary and Conclusion.
Index
Biography
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a celebrated writer and commentator on social and political affairs.
'The whole book is candid and stimulating and, for both its subject and its treatment, one of the best that Mr. Russell has given us.' - The Times
