PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bertrand Russell, Sense Data, Nuclear Technology
11 Oct 2017
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Phil 100w - lecture 10 - the problems of philosophy. Important philosopher who made serious contributions in variety of areas, including mathematics, logic, epistemology, philosophy of language. Was prominent pacifist & critic of development of nuclear technology. Won nobel prize in literature in 1950. Problems of philosophy - short book first published in 1912 meant to outline issues arising in epistemology & metaphysics, aka knowledge & reality. Throughout book, adopts theory that was popular at time. Thinks that we are not directly in contact w/ mind-independent external objects. Instead, what we are immediately aware of when we perceive, thinking, etc are sense data. Let us give the name of sense-data" to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on. We shall give the name sensation" to the experience of being immediately aware of these things.
