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1 online resource (viii, 355 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Honoré 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). |
| Summary |
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 period of more than sixty years. Together these selections represent the belief that philosophers should reflect not only on mathematics and science but also on other aspects of culture, such as religion, art, history, law, education, and morality. White's essays cover the full range of his interests: studi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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JSTOR-DDA |
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Philosophy |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: White, Morton Gabriel, 1917- From a philosophical point of view. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691119597 9780691119595 (DLC) 2004044335 (OCoLC)54416042 |
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9781400826469 (electronic book) |
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1400826462 (electronic book) |
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9780691119595 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691119597 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691119597 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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