Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays, credited to Bertrand Russell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell. Read in English by Landon D. C. Elkind This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in mathematics could be applied to the solution of ancient philosophical problems. Many of the subsequent essays show the evolution of this hope as Russell worked on the foundations of mathematics and applied the new methods to the reconstruction of physical objects on the basis of sense-data, and the redefinition of matter and cause. (Landon D. C. Elkind)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
• Author credits: Bertrand Russell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 8:21:59

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• metaphysics
• epistemology
• analytic philosophy
• bertrand russell

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 3:53
2. 01 - Mysticism and Logic — 1:05:52
3. 02 - The Place of Science in a Liberal Education — 27:10
4. 03 - A Free Man's Worship — 25:49
5. 04 - The Study of Mathematics — 34:30
6. 05 - Mathematics and the Metaphysicians — 49:42
7. 06 - On Scientific Method in Philosophy — 59:01
8. 07 - The Ultimate Constituents of Matter — 44:12
9. 08 - The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 1) — 36:36
10. 09 - The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics (Part 2) — 38:41
11. 10 - On the Notion of Cause — 1:02:45
12. 11 - Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description — 53:48

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