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First published in 1958, this book focuses on the meaning, interpretation, and use of the verb to know . In our daily lives we are often claiming to know this or not to know that; and it is not therefore surprising that the verb has played a major role in philosophical speculation from Plato down to Bertrand Russell. This book analyses the varying meanings of know in its different operational roles: knowing Jones seems to have a different sort of logic from knowing French or from knowing what to do and equally from knowing that the earth is round and from knowing how to read music. Knowing...

First published in 1958, this book focuses on the meaning, interpretation, and use of the verb to know . In our daily lives we are often claiming to know this or not to know that; and it is not therefore surprising that the verb has played a major role in philosophical speculation from Plato down to Bertrand Russell. This book analyses the varying meanings of know in its different operational roles: knowing Jones seems to have a different sort of logic from knowing French or from knowing what to do and equally from knowing that the earth is round and from knowing how to read music. Knowing...

First published in 1960, this book is intended to be a concise but complete treatise on Ethics. In the course of our lives we all face moral problems. Some of these we solve easily, some with difficulty and some not at all. It is the job of the moral philosopher to examine the general nature of these problems and to investigate their logical significance. His task however extends beyond investigating what are specifically moral problems; for he is concerned with the whole field of moral discourse that is, with moral prescriptions and evaluations of all kinds. For this reason the branch of...

First published in 1960, this book is intended to be a concise but complete treatise on Ethics. In the course of our lives we all face moral problems. Some of these we solve easily, some with difficulty and some not at all. It is the job of the moral philosopher to examine the general nature of these problems and to investigate their logical significance. His task however extends beyond investigating what are specifically moral problems; for he is concerned with the whole field of moral discourse that is, with moral prescriptions and evaluations of all kinds. For this reason the branch of...