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Philosophic problems : an introductory book of readings / edited by Maurice Mandelbaum, Francis W. Gramlich [and] Alan Ross Anderson.
LIBRA B29 .M364 1957
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 762 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, [©1957]
- Contents:
- I. Philosophical Problems / Bertrand Russell
- Philosophy and common sense / C. D. Broad
- Philosophy and science / H.N. Wieman and W.M. Horton
- Philosophy and religion
- II Problems of Method
- TThe method of Scince / Max Blakc
- Observation and experiment / Irving M. Copi
- Fact and Hypothesis / Morris R. Cohen and Ernest Nagel
- What is scientific method
- Problems in Scientific Method
- the status of mathmatics / Carl G. Hempel
- Mathematics and the a priori / A. C. Ewing
- A defense of the a priori
- Causation and law / The idea of necessary connection
- David Hume / Morris R. Cohen
- Necessity and law / A.N. Whitehead
- The idea of cuase
- The problem of induction / Bertand Russell
- On induction / F.L. Will
- Will the future be like the past
- Is science limited? / F. R. Tennant
- The nature and limitions on scientific method / Ernst Cassirer
- Science and the Forms of Knowing
- Alternative methods / Rene Descartes
- Rationalism / Henri Gergson
- Instutionism / William James
- Pragmatism
- III. Knowledge and the external world / C.I. Lewis
- Knowledge and the Given / George Berkley
- Idealism / Karl Pearson
- Phenomenalism / A. O. Lovejoy
- Critical realism / C.I. Lewis
- Pragamatic Realism
- IV. Life and mind
- Purpose and law in biology / J. B. Lamarck
- The environment and organic needs / Charles Darwin
- The origin of species / Eugenio Rignano
- Vitalism / Joseph Needham
- A mechanistic criticism of vitalism / J. H. Woodger
- Emergence / Ernerst Nagel
- Emergence vs. reductionism
- The mind body problem / J.B. Pratt
- Matter ans spirit / A. S. Pringle-Pattison
- The self as a unified system / Brand Blanshard
- Teleology and the self / George Santayana
- Science and mann
- Freedom and determinism / Ledger Wood
- The free- will controversy / Gilbert Ryle
- The myth of volitions / Williamm James
- The dilemma of determinism / Adolf Grunbaum
- Science and Man. V. Ethics
- Culture realitivism / Ruth Benedict
- The concept of the normal / A.L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn
- Values and relativity / Solomon E. Asch
- A psychological critique of relativism
- Good as the standard / Friedrich Nietzsche
- The good as poewr / Jeremy Bentham
- The good as pleasure / R.M. Blake
- The good as pleasure / Ralph Barton Perry
- The Good as Fulfillment / G.E. Moore
- ideal ulitiarianism
- Duty as the standard / Joseph Bulter
- The nature of virtue / Immanuel Kant
- The Categorical imperative / W.D. Ross
- The right and the good
- Criticism of normative ethics / A. J. Ayer
- The Emotive Theory
- VI. Values and the social order / John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty / Friedrich Engels
- Communism and the social order / V.I. Lenin
- The state of revolution / Benito Mussolini
- The doctrine of fascism / Sidney Hook
- Democracy and equality / W.E. Hocking
- The individual and his rights
- VII. Religion
- The nature of religion / Josiah Royce
- Religion as Moral code and thoery / John Wood Oman
- The sphere of religion
- Rational proofs for the existance of God / St. Anselm
- The ontological argument / E.G. Jay
- the five ways of Saint Thomas Aquinas / William Temple
- The proof from the existance of the mind / A.E. Taylor
- The moral argument / David Hume
- On the argument from design / W.T. Stace
- The divine as beyond proof
- Mysticism / William James
- The mystic's way / Rujus Jones
- The God of mystical experince
- Faith and knowledge / St. Thomas Aquinas
- The harmony of reason and revelation / Emil Brunner
- The word and the world / William James
- The will to believe / Reinhold Niebuhr
- The truth in myths
- Natrualism and religion / A.J. Ayer
- A comment on supernaturalism / Baruch Spinoza
- The idea of divine purpose / John Dewey
- Religion vs. the relgious / George Santayana
- Religion in the life of reason
- VII. World views
- Theism / Etienne Gilson
- God and the world / W.R. Sorley
- God and the moral order / Reinhold Niebuhr
- A christian view of life and history
- Idealism / James Ward
- Naturalism and Idealism / J.B. Baillie
- The individual and his world / Bernard Bosanquet
- On the true concepption of another world
- Naturalism / Herbert Feigl
- Logical empiricism / John Sommerville
- Dialectical materialism / John Dewey
- Experince and nature / Ernest Nagel
- Natrualism reconsidered.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mandelbaum, Maurice, 1908-1987. Philosophic problems.
- OCLC:
- 925797
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