American Philosophy Collection Vol. 2-Various

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume.The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism addressed toward the former book. In it, Hume explains his theory of epistemology, and argues against other current theories, including those of John Locke, George Berkeley, and Nicolas Malebranche.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russell summarizes the significance of the momentous work of mathematicians in the late nineteenth-century. He further describes his own philosophy of mathematics, Logicism (the view that all mathematical truths are logical truths), and his earlier, influential work solving the paradoxes that plagued mathematical foundations, which crystallized after ten years of dogged effort into the co-authored (with Alfred North Whitehead), three-volume 'Principia Mathematica'. Russell emphasizes the importance of a doctrine of types, the truth of Logicism, and the clarity brought to the philosophy of mathematics by the method of logical analysis.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell.Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this book, written in 1918, he offers his assessment of three competing streams in the thought of the political left: Marxian socialism, anarchism and syndicalism.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick.This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, whether by spiritual interpretation or through advances in science. From the Preface: "The chapters which follow are not intended as even a slight sketch of the history of Thought since the Renaissance. Their object is more modest, i.e. to illustrate the thesis that mankind, being 'incurably religious,' insists (however hopeless the enterprise may sometimes seem) upon interpreting the universe spiritually."Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall.History of Ancient Greek philosophy from pre-Socratics to Aristotle and on to the Sceptics and the Stoics.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

American Philosophy Collection Vol. 2.Volume 2 focuses on the debates surrounding the emergence of the so-called 'New Realism.' Inspired by the early works of the American pragmatists, the new realists opposed idealistic and transcendental metaphysics, and advocated for various forms of empirical and scientific naturalism.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill.John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women , Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Poetics by Aristotle.Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies today. It is especially popular with screenwriters as seen in many script gurus’ how-to books.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell.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.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

What I Believe by Bertrand Russell.Provides a brief indication of the beliefs of philosopher Bertrand Russell, focusing on his hopes for the future. The topics included are: nature and man, the good life, moral rules, individual and social salvation, and science and happiness.Featured on Classic Philosophy Library.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.