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Contemporary American Philosophy
Personal Statements Volume II
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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.
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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