The ways of things : a philosophy of knowledge, nature, and value / by Wm. Pepperell Montague.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Prentice-Hall philosophy series: A. E. Murphy, PH.D., editorPublication details: New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940.Description: xviii, 712 p. diagrs. 21cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD21 .M6
Contents:
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.
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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.

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