Philosophical Essays
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Philosophical Essays

In Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr.

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Philosophical Essays

In Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr.

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. I. Methodology and Science
  4. On The Criteria and Limits of Meaning
  5. Postulates of Empirical Thought
  6. The Development of The Experimental Method
  7. Towards a General Logic of Propositions
  8. Two Applications of Logic to Biology
  9. Biological Phenomena Which a Definition of Life Must Include
  10. The Principle of Associative Learning
  11. The Concept of Volition in Experimental Psychology
  12. The Experience Theory of the Social Attitudes
  13. II. Ethics and Religion
  14. Toward an Experimental Definition of Criminal Mind
  15. Reflections on Contemporary Science and Ethics
  16. The Cultural Function of Religion
  17. III. Aesthetics
  18. Esthetic of Music and the Rational Ideal
  19. Shaper, Thinker and Visionary
  20. Ateleological Theories of Aesthetic
  21. The Expression of Meanings and Emotions in Music
  22. IV. History
  23. ΦΑΝΤΑΣΙΑ in Plotinus
  24. Kant and Thomas Aquinas on the Proofs for the Existence of God
  25. The Categories of Aristotle
  26. Newton's Natural Philosophy: Its Problems and Consequences
  27. David Hume's Contribution to Social Science
  28. Bibliography of The Writings of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr.