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Author Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.

Title American philosophers at work; the philosophic scene in the United States.

Publication Info. New York : Criterion Books, [1956]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  B934 .H6    Available  ---
Description 512 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Justifying inductive inference / Alice Ambrose -- Definition, presupposition and assertion / Max Black -- Meaning and synonymy in natural languages / Rudolf Carnap -- The revision of philosophy / Nelson Goodman -- Some suggestions concerning metaphysics of logic / Clarence I. Lewis -- Mechanistic explanation and organismic biology / Ernest Nagel -- Logical truth / Willard V. Quine -- Is there a synthetic a priori? / Wilfrid Sellars -- Persuasive definitions / Charles L. Stevenson -- The nature of mind / Brand Blanshard -- God as a function in modern systems of philosophy / James Collins -- The method of knowledge in philosophy / C. J. Ducasse -- Some empty though important truths: A Preface to metaphysics / Charles Hartshorne -- Naturalism and first principles / Sdiney Hook -- Metaphysical method / Stephen C. Pepper -- To be and not to be / Herbert W. Schneider -- Time and eternity / Walter T. Stace -- The new outlook / Paul Weiss -- The myth of passage / Donald C. Williams -- Conflict / William R. Dennes -- Mill's "Proof" of utility / Everett W. Hall -- Of humanistic sources of democracy / Horace M. Kallen -- Obscenity as an esthetic category / Abraham Kaplan -- The science of man and unified science / Charles Morris -- The common good / Arthur E. Murphy -- Ethical relativism in the light of recent legal science / F. S. C. Northrop -- The rationale of political discussion / Charner M. Perry -- The absolute truth of hedonism / Wilmon H. Sheldon -- Ohilosophy and democracy / T. V. Smith --
Subject Philosophy, American.
Philosophy, American.