Research Catalog

Title

Nature and mind : selected essays of Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, presented to him on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by Amherst College, the University of Minnesota, Columbia University; with a bibliography of his writings.

Author

Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, 1937.

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Additional Authors

• Amherst College. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109792
• Columbia University. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024714
• University of Minnesota. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043154

Description

x, 509 pages : frontispiece (portrait); 23 cm

Subject

• Philosophy

Contents

[1.] Metaphysics and logic: The argument from design as affected by the theory of evolution -- The problem of metaphysics -- The field of logic -- Naturalism and humanism -- Metaphysics -- Natural teleology -- Evolution -- Structure -- Mind discerned -- Mental development -- Behaviour -- Creation -- Substance -- The promise of pragmatism -- Experience and dialectic -- Implications of the genetic method -- The nature of man -- The universe of light -- An approach to the theory of nature -- [2.] Consciousness and cognition: What is personality? -- The nature of consciousness -- Of what sort is cognitive experience? -- The problem of consciousness -- Perception and epistemology -- Consciousness, the sense organs, and the nervous system -- The problem of time in modern philosophy -- Consciousness and object -- The deception of the senses -- The belief in sensations -- Tangling cognition -- The problem of consciousness again -- [3.] Addresses: The enterprise of learning -- The discovery of the mind -- Places and men -- The practice of philosophy -- The preface to morals.

LCCN

37008521

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries