Bertrand Russell, a philosopher, published The Problems of Philosophy in
1912. In this book, he makes an effort to produce a short and accessible
overview of the issues with philosophy. He describes philosophy as a
series of ongoing (failed) attempts to address the same issues.
Philosophy cannot provide value by providing answers to these issues
through proof.According to Bertrand Russell, the existence of external
things cannot be questioned based solely on sensory evidence. Russell
explains his well-known distinction between information gained by
acquaintance and knowledge gained via description made in 1910.
Aristotle, Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other thinkers are among those whose views
he introduces.A summary of significant philosophical contributions is
given in The Problems of Philosophy. Russell evaluates earlier arguments
critically and reacts to them using his own set of distinctions and
tools. However, the context in which problems develop is universal, as
is what interests us about reality and our perception of it.