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Autobiographical asides - My religious reminiscences - My mental development - Adaptation: an autobiographical epitome - Why I took to philosophy - The Nobel Prize winning man of letters )essayist and short story writer( - How I write - A free man's worship - An outline of intellectual rubbish: a hilarious catalogue of organized and individual stupidity - The metaphysician's nightmare - The philosopher of language - Language - Sentences, syntax, and parts of speech - The uses of language - The cult of "common usage" - The logician and philosopher of mathematics - Symbolic logic - On induction - Preface to Principia mathematica - Introduction to Principia mathematica - Summary of part III, Principia mathematica - Summary of part IV, Principia mathematica - Summary of part V, Principia mathematica - Summary of part VI, Principia mathematica - Introduction to the second edition, Principia mathematica - Mathematics and logic - The validity of inference - Dewey's new logic - John Dewey - The epistemologist - Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge - By description - Theory of knowledge - Epistemological premisses - The metaphysician - Materialism, past and present - Language and metaphysics - The retreat from Pythagoras - Historian of philosophy - Philosophy in the twentieth century - Aristotle's logic - St Thomas Aquinas - Currents of thought in the nineteenth century - The philosophy of logical analysis - The psychologist - Psychological and physical causal laws - Truth and falsehood - Knowledge behaviouristically considered - The moral philosopher - Styles in ethics - The place of sex among human values - Individual and social ethics - "What I believe" - The expanding mental universe - The philosopher of education - Education - The aims of education - Emotion and discipline - The functions of a teacher - The philosopher of politics - The reconciliation of individuality and citizenship - Philosophy and politics - Politically important desires - Why I am not a communist - The philosopher in the field of economics - Property - Dialectical materialism - The theory of surplus value - The philosopher of history - On history - The materialistic theory of history - History as an art - The philosopher of culture: East and West - Chinese and Western civilization contrasted - Eastern and Western ideals of happiness - The philosopher of religion - The essence of religion - What is an agnostic? - Why I am not a Christian - Can religion cure our troubles? - The philosopher and expositor of science - Physics and neutral monism - Science and education - Limitations of scientific method - The new physics and relativity - Science and values - Non-demonstrative inference - The analyst of international affairs - The taming of power - If we are to survive this dark time - What would help mankind most? - Current perplexities - World government - The next half-century - Life without fear - Science and human life - Open letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev - Man's peril - Methods of settling disputes in the nuclear Age - Index