How long does it take to read Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits?
Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell takes about 9 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1948. 531 pages, about 146,025 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Human Knowledge is Bertrand Russell's examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It presents an examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology. --From publisher's description.
Subjects: Kennistheorie, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Theory of Knowledge, Erkenntnis, Philosophy, Knowledge, theory of
