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One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Morton White has spent a career building bridges among the increasingly fragmented worlds of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. From a Philosophical Point of View is a selection of White's best essays, written over a pe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Morton (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: What I Have Learned by Rereading These Essays
  • PART I Prolegomena
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Prologue to A Philosophy of Culture (2002)
  • CHAPTER 2 Philosophy and Man: An Exhortation (1955)
  • CHAPTER 3 The Social Role of Philosophy (1952)
  • CHAPTER 4. New Horizons in Philosophy (1960)
  • PART II History
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 5 A Plea for an Analytic Philosophy of History (1953)
  • CHAPTER 6 Historical Relativism and the Evaluation of Histories (2003)
  • CHAPTER 7 Historical Inevitability (1956)
  • CHAPTER 8. Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003)
  • PART III Religion, Education, and Politics
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 9. John Dewey: A Great Philosopher of Education (1966)
  • CHAPTER 10. Religion, Politics, and the Higher Learning (1954)
  • CHAPTER 11. Religious Commitment and Higher Education (1957)
  • CHAPTER 12. The University in Transition (1966)
  • CHAPTER 13. Philosophy in a Utopian Institute for Advanced Study (1989)
  • PART IV. Analyticity, Morality, Causality, and Liberty
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 14. The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism (1950)
  • CHAPTER 15. Ontological Clarity and Semantic Obscurity (1951)
  • CHAPTER 16. On the Church-Frege Solution of the Paradox of Analysis (1948)
  • CHAPTER 17. Oughts and Cans (1979)
  • CHAPTER 18. Causation and Action (1969)
  • CHAPTER 19. Hart and Honoré on Causation in the Law (1960)
  • CHAPTER 20. The Question of Free Will: Some Preliminary Remarks (1993)
  • PART V. Pragmatism
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 21. Harvard's Philosophical Heritage (1957)
  • CHAPTER 22. Experiment and Necessity in Dewey's Philosophy (1959)
  • CHAPTER 23. Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949)
  • CHAPTER 24. Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey (1996)
  • CHAPTER 25. Peirce's Summum Bonum and the Ethical Views of C. I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999)
  • CHAPTER 26. Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine's Holism (1986)
  • CHAPTER 27. Holistic Pragmatism and Ethics (2002)
  • CHAPTER 28. The Psychologism of Hume and Arithmetical Truth (2003)
  • PART VI. History of Ideas
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 29. Why Annalists of Ideas Should Be Analysts of Ideas (1975)
  • CHAPTER 30. The Revolt against Formalism in American Social Thought of the Twentieth Century (1947)
  • CHAPTER 31. Pragmatism and the Revolt against Formalism: Revising Some Doctrines of William James (1986)
  • CHAPTER 32. The Politics of Epistemology (1989)
  • CHAPTER 33. Original Sin, Natural Law, and Politics (1956)
  • CHAPTER 34. Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Progressive Era (1988)
  • CHAPTER 35. The American Intellectual versus the American City (1961)
  • CHAPTER 36. The Philosopher and the Metropolis in America (1963)
  • PART VII. Philosophers
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 37. William James (1986)
  • CHAPTER 38. The Later Years of George Santayana (1963)
  • CHAPTER 39. English Philosophy at Midcentury: An American's Impressions (1951)
  • CHAPTER 40. Memories of G. E. Moore (1959)
  • CHAPTER 41. W. V. Quine (2001)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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