Research Catalog

Title

Readings in philosophical analysis; selected and ed. by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars.

Author

Feigl, Herbert

Publication

New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1949]

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Additional Authors

• Rawls, John, 1921-2002
• Sellars, Wilfrid
• Sellars, Wilfrid,

Description

x, 626 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Suggested further readings": p. [617]-626.

Series Statement

The Century philosophy series

Uniform Title

Century philosophy series

Subject

Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• "Suggested further readings": p. [617]-626.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Logical empiricism / H. Feigl -- 1. Language, meaning, and truth: Is existence a predicate? / W.C. Kneale -- Designation and existence / W.V. Quine -- The semantic conception of truth / A. Tarski -- On sense and nominatum / G. Frege -- On denoting / B. Russell -- 2. Meaningfulness and confirmation: Truth and confirmation / R. Carnap -- Experience and meaning / C.I. Lewis -- Meaning and verification / M. Schlick -- Messrs. Schlick and Ayer on immortality / V.C. Aldrich -- Pictorial meaning and picture thinking / V.C. Aldrich -- The scientific world-perspective / K. Ajdukiewicz -- 3. The nature of logic and mathematics: Logic without ontology / E. Nagel -- The relevance of psychology to logic / F. Waismann -- On the nature of mathematical truth / C.G. Hempel -- Geometry and empirical science / C.G. Hempel -- Truth by convention / W.V. Quine -- 4. Is there synthetic a priori knowledge?: Is there a factual a priori? / M. Schlick -- The pragmatic conception of a priori / C.I. Lewis -- 5. Induction and probability: The logical character of the principle of induction / H. Feigl -- The logical foundations of the concept of probability / H. Reichenbach -- On the justification of induction / H. Reichenbach -- The two concepts of probability / R. Carnap -- 6. Data, reality, and the mind-body problem: Hume's philosophy / G.E. Moore -- The refutation of realism / W.T. Stace -- The logical analysis of psychology / C.G. Hempel -- Some logical considerations concerning the mental / C.I. Lewis -- On the relation between psychological and physical concepts / M. Schlick -- Logical foundations of the unity of science / R. Carnap -- Realism and the new way of words / W.S. Sellars -- 7. Problems of description and explanation in the empirical sciences: The function of general laws in history / C.G. Hempel -- The "nature" of a continuant / C.D. Broad -- The contrary-to-fact conditional / R.M. Chisholm -- Operationalism and scientific method / H. Feigl -- Some remarks on the meaning of scientific explanation / H. Feigl -- Causality in everyday life and in recent science / M. Schlick -- Mechanical and Teleological causation / C.A. Mace -- Explanation, mechanism, and teleology / C.J. Ducasse -- 8. Problems of theoretical ethics: Some of the main problems of ethics / C.D. Broad -- Review of Julian S. Huxley's Evolutionary ethics / C.D. Broad -- The nature of ethical disagreement / C.L. Stevenson -- The freedom of the will / The University of California Associates.

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^^^49007388^

OCLC

1540003

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library