Readings in philosophical analysis / selected and edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfred Sellars.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feigl, Herbert, editor.

Sellars, Wilfred, editor.

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Century philosophy series

Century philosophy series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Chaim (autograph, 9/1960, Philadelphia) (RBC copy)

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (stamp) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

x, 626 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949.

Contents:

Introduction: Logical empiricism / H. Feigl

1. Language, meaning, and truth: Is existence a predicate? / W.C. Kneale

Designation and existence / W.V. Quine

The semantic conception of truth / A. Tarski

On sense and nominatum / G. Frege

On denoting / B. Russell

2. Meaningfulness and confirmation: Truth and confirmation / R. Carnap

Experience and meaning / C.I. Lewis

Meaning and verification / M. Schlick

Messrs. Schlick and Ayer on immortality / V.C. Aldrich

Pictorial meaning and picture thinking / V.C. Aldrich

The scientific world-perspective / K. Ajdukiewicz

3. The nature of logic and mathematics: Logic without ontology / E. Nagel

The relevance of psychology to logic / F. Waismann

On the nature of mathematical truth / C.G. Hempel

Geometry and empirical science / C.G. Hempel

Truth by convention / W.V. Quine

4. Is there synthetic a priori knowledge?: Is there a factual a priori? / M. Schlick

The pragmatic conception of a priori / C.I. Lewis

5. Induction and probability: The logical character of the principle of induction / H. Feigl

The logical foundations of the concept of probability / H. Reichenbach

On the justification of induction / H. Reichenbach

The two concepts of probability / R. Carnap

6. Data, reality, and the mind-body problem: Hume's philosophy / G.E. Moore

The refutation of realism / W.T. Stace

The logical analysis of psychology / C.G. Hempel

Some logical considerations concerning the mental / C.I. Lewis

On the relation between psychological and physical concepts / M. Schlick

Logical foundations of the unity of science / R. Carnap

Realism and the new way of words / W.S. Sellars

7. Problems of description and explanation in the empirical sciences: The function of general laws in history / C.G. Hempelge?: The "nature" of a continuant / C.D. Broad

The contrary-to-fact conditional / R.M. Chisholm

Operationalism and scientific method / H. Feigl

Some remarks on the meaning of scientific explanation / H. Feigl

Causality in everyday life and in recent science / M. Schlick

Mechanical and Teleological causation / C.A. Mace

Explanation, mechanism, and teleology / C.J. Ducasse

8. Problems of theoretical ethics: Some of the main problems of ethics / C.D. Broad

Review of Julian S. Huxley's Evolutionary ethics / C.D. Broad

The nature of ethical disagreement / C.L. Stevenson

The freedom of the will / The University of California Associates.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1949, by Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc."--verso of title page.

"Suggested further readings": pages 617-626.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has annotations by Chaim Potok, from p. 374 on.

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

OCLC:

1540003