Contemporary American Philosophy

Personal Statements Volume II

George P and Montague Adams

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415295369
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317853480
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

This is Volume II on Personal Statements initially published in 1930. This collection includes essays from John Dewey, Clarence Irving Lewis, WM. Pepperell, Edgar A. Singer Jr, Frederick J.E. Woodbridge and others from the field of contemporary American philosophy.

INDEX

ABSOLUTE—

realist criticism of the Absolute, 190

ANTHROPOMORPHISM—

in ethics and logic, 72

ARISTOTLE—

his metaphysical teaching, 435

and the appreciation of language, 436

BIOLOGY—

causal prepotency of the fertilized germ, 156

BOOLE—

interpretation of logical relations, 33

algebraic calculus criticized, 34

BOSANQUET—

quoted, 89, 92

CAPITALISM—

its principles and development, 348

and the Russian experiment, 349

DEWEY, JOHN—

studies at Vermont, 14

intuitional phase, 15

adopts philosophy as career, 16

enters Johns Hopkins University, 18

influence of Hegel, 19

religious doubts, 20

interest in social problems, 20

Hegel and Plato contrasted, 21

formative influences, 22

interest in education, 23

influence of William James, 23, 24, 25

social significance of philosophy, 26

EDCINGTON, PROFKSSOR—

quoted, 111

EINSTEIN—

description of relativity theory, 157

EMPIRICISM—

exposition of empirical standpoint, 227

ETHICS—

theory of W. P. Montague, 147

moral ideas and social forces, 340

ethical conceptions and class standards, 342–3

analysis of ethical ideas, 347

society and the ethical principle, 349

EVOLUTION—

refers to part of reality, 179

element of irrationality, 180

GOD—

the ontological argument, 64

an animistic theory of the cosmos, 148

GREEKS—

essential understanding of nature, 249

Greek progress towards humanism, 265

HARVARD—

philosophical teaching at, 137, 188, 244

HEGEL—

attraction of the dialectic, 19

compared with Plato, 21

critical estimate of, 79

as consistent master of rationalist method, 226

influence on Edgar Singer, 298

HERBERT, GEORGE—

quoted, 303

HOWISON, G. H.—

quoted, 85

his system of idealism, 141

HUME—

essential soundness of his method, 166

IDEALISM—

recent reactions against, 87

tested by temporality, 89

psychological supports of, 90

other revolts against, 100

exposition of empirical idealism, 166 et seq.

the two premises of, criticized, 190

arguments drawn from methodological difficulty, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• From Absolutism to Experimentalism
• Logic and Pragmatism
• Problematic Realism
• A Temporalistic Realism
• A Tentative Realistic Metaphysics
• Confessions of an Animistic Materialist
• Empirical Idealism
• Realism in Retrospect
• Personal Realism
• Empiricism
• Brief History of my Opinions
• Realism, Naturalism, and Humanism
• Confessio Philosophi
• Nature and Mind
• What I Believe
• Metaphysics and Value
• An Unborn Idealism
• Confessions
• Index