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From a Philosophical Point of View : Selected Studies /

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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Autor principal: White, Morton, 1917-2016
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue to A philosophy of culture (2002)
  • Philosophy and man : an exhortation (1955)
  • The social role of philosophy (1952)
  • New horizons in philosophy (1960)
  • A plea for an analytic philosophy of history (1953)
  • Historical relativism and the evaluation of histories (2003)
  • Historical inevitability (1956)
  • Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003)
  • John Dewey : a great philosopher of education (1966)
  • Religion, politics, and the higher learning (1954)
  • Religious commitment and higher education (1957)
  • The university in transition (1966)
  • Philosophy in a utopian institute for advanced study (1989)
  • The analytic and the synthetic : an untenable dualism (1950)
  • Ontological clarity and semantic obscurity (1951)
  • On the church-frege solution of the paradox of analysis (1948)
  • Oughts and cans (1979)
  • Causation and action (1969)
  • Hart and Honore on causation in the law (1960)
  • The question of free will : some preliminary remarks (1993)
  • Harvard's philosophical heritage (1957)
  • Experiment and necessity in Dewey's philosophy (1959)
  • Value and obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949)
  • Desire and desirability : a rejoinder to a posthumous reply by John Dewey (1996)
  • Peirce's Summum Bonum and the ethical views of C.I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999)
  • Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism (1986)
  • Holistic pragmatism and ethics (2002)
  • The psychologism of Hume and arithmetical truth (2003)
  • Why annalists of ideas should be analysts of ideas (1975)
  • The revolt against formalism in American social thought of the twentieth century (1947)
  • Pragmatism and the revolt against formalism : revising some doctrines of William James (1986)
  • The politics of epistemology (1989)
  • Original sin, natural law, and politics (1956)
  • Philosophy, The federalist, and the progressive era (1988)
  • The American intellectual versus the American city (1961)
  • The philosopher and the metropolis in America (1963)
  • William James (1986)
  • The later years of George Santayana (1963)
  • English philosophy at mid-century : an American's impressions (1951)
  • Memories of G.E. Moore (1959)
  • W.V. Quine (2001).