Research Catalog

Title

Principles of emergent realism : philosophical essays by Roy Wood Sellars / compiled and edited by W. Preston Warren.

Author

Sellars, Roy Wood, 1880-1973.

Publication

St. Louis, Mo., W.H. Green [1970]

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Details

Description

xxvii, 352 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Modern concepts of philosophy

Uniform Title

Modern concepts of philosophy.

Subject

• Realism
• Mind and body
• Values
• Religion > Philosophy
• Mind and body
• Realism
• Religion > Philosophy
• Values
• Realismus Philosophie
• Réalisme (philosophie)
• Esprit et corps
• Valeurs (philosophie)
• Philosophie de la religion
• Realismus (Philosophie)

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 337-343.

Contents

• Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Basic explanatory conceptions. Introduction -- Sensations as guides to perceiving -- Referential transcendence -- Causality and substance.
• Part II. The development of referential physical realism -- Introduction to essays -- In quest of a functionally definitive realism. Is there a cognitive relation? -- A thing and its properties -- The status of the categories -- Epistemological dualism vs. metaphysical dualism -- A re-examination of critical realism -- A clarification of critical realism -- Why naturalism and not materialism -- Is naturalism enough? Reformed materialism and intrinsic endurance.
• Part III. The mind-body test case. Introduction to the essays -- A fourth progression in the relation of mind and body -- Consciousness and conservation -- Is consciousness alien to the physical -- The double-knowledge approach to the mind-body problem -- An analytic approach to the mind-body problem.
• Part IV. Other tests of emergent realism: the theory of truth and the theory of value. Introduction -- The theory of truth -- "True" as contextually implying correspondence -- The theory of value -- Can a reformed materialism do justice to values? -- In what sense do value judgements and moral judgements have objective import? -- Guided causality, using reason, and "free-will."
• Part V. Other tests of emergent realism: social philosophy and philosophy of religion -- Social philosophy -- Introduction to social philosophy -- Socialism and democracy -- Three stages of socialism -- Reason and revolution -- The quality of democracy -- Objectives and priorities -- Introduction to philosophy of religion -- The next step in religion (1918) -- Naturalizing the spiritual (1928) -- A humanist manifesto (1933) -- Cosmic perspective -- Bibliography of the writings of Roy Wood Sellars -- Bibliographical Supplement -- Index.

LCCN

70096993

OCLC

• ocm00100116
• 100116
• SCSB-277132

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library