The ways of things :
Montague, William Pepperell, 1873-1953.
The ways of things : a philosophy of knowledge, nature, and value / by Wm. Pepperell Montague. - New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940. - xviii, 712 p. diagrs. 21cm. - Prentice-Hall philosophy series: A. E. Murphy, PH.D., editor .
pt. 1. An introduction to philosophy: Foreword: Philosophy: its meaning affiliations, and divisions --
pt. 2. Experiments in philosophy: Prologue: The vision of philosophy --
Sect. 1. Formal logic: On the nature od induction --
A defense of causality --
The rainbow series and the logarithm of aleph null --
Sect. 2. Material logic: The antinomy and its implications for logical theory --
Sect. 3. Epistemology: The story of American realism --
Truth subsistential and existential --
Sect. 4. and Sect. 5. Metaphysics: Beyond physics --
The Einstein theory and a possible alternative --
A possible interpretation of the quantum --
A theory of time perception --
Time and the fourth dimension --
Substance, potentiality, and cause: a positivistic theory of rationalistic categories --
A materialistic theory of emergent evolution --
Variation, heredity, and consciousness --
Consciousness a form of energy --
Sect. 6. Theology: The Promethean challenge to religion --
The Trinity -a speculation --
The two immortalities --
Sect. 7. Esthetics: The true, the good, and the beautiful from a pragmatic standpoint --
Beauty is not all: an appeal for esthetic pluralism --
Sect. 8. Ethics: The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche --
The missing link in the case for utilitarianism --
The geometry of the good life --
Democracy at the crossroads --
Postscript: Confessions of an animistic materialist.
40007911
Philosophy.
BD21 / .M6
The ways of things : a philosophy of knowledge, nature, and value / by Wm. Pepperell Montague. - New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940. - xviii, 712 p. diagrs. 21cm. - Prentice-Hall philosophy series: A. E. Murphy, PH.D., editor .
pt. 1. An introduction to philosophy: Foreword: Philosophy: its meaning affiliations, and divisions --
pt. 2. Experiments in philosophy: Prologue: The vision of philosophy --
Sect. 1. Formal logic: On the nature od induction --
A defense of causality --
The rainbow series and the logarithm of aleph null --
Sect. 2. Material logic: The antinomy and its implications for logical theory --
Sect. 3. Epistemology: The story of American realism --
Truth subsistential and existential --
Sect. 4. and Sect. 5. Metaphysics: Beyond physics --
The Einstein theory and a possible alternative --
A possible interpretation of the quantum --
A theory of time perception --
Time and the fourth dimension --
Substance, potentiality, and cause: a positivistic theory of rationalistic categories --
A materialistic theory of emergent evolution --
Variation, heredity, and consciousness --
Consciousness a form of energy --
Sect. 6. Theology: The Promethean challenge to religion --
The Trinity -a speculation --
The two immortalities --
Sect. 7. Esthetics: The true, the good, and the beautiful from a pragmatic standpoint --
Beauty is not all: an appeal for esthetic pluralism --
Sect. 8. Ethics: The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche --
The missing link in the case for utilitarianism --
The geometry of the good life --
Democracy at the crossroads --
Postscript: Confessions of an animistic materialist.
40007911
Philosophy.
BD21 / .M6