Contributor
Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
Imprint:New York : Criterion Books, 1956
Description512 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:ONE: LOGIC AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD: Justifying inductive inference / Alice Ambrose -- Definition, presupposition and assertion / Max Black -- Meaning and synonymy in natural language / Rudolf Carnap -- The revision of philosophy / Nelson Goodman -- Some suggestions concerning metaphysics of logic / Clarence I. Lewis -- Mechanistic explanation and organismic biology / Ernest Nagel -- Logical truth / Willard V. Quine -- Is there a synthetic a priori? / Wilfrid Sellars -- Persuasive definitions / Charles L. Stevenson -- TWO: METAPHYSICS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEGE: The nature of mind / Brand Blanshard -- God as a function in modern systems of philosophy / James Collins -- The method of knowledge in philosophy / C.J. Ducasse -- Some empty though important truths: a preface to metaphysics / Charles Hartshorne -- Naturalism and first principles / Sidney Hook -- Metaphysical method / Stephen C. Pepper -- To be and not to be / Herbert W. Schneider -- Time and eternity / Walter T. Stace -- The new outlook / Paul Weiss -- The myth of passage / Donald C. Williams -- THREE: ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY: Conflict / William R. Dennes -- Mill's "proof" of utility / Everett W. Hall -- Of humanistic sources of democracy / Horace M. Kallen -- Obscenity as an esthetic category / Abraham Kaplan -- The science of man and unified science / Charles Morris -- The common good / Arthur E. Murphy -- Ethical relativism in the light of recent legal science / F.S.C. Northrop -- The rationale of political discussion / Charner M. Perry -- The absolute truth of hedonism / Wilmon H. Sheldon -- Philosophy and democracy / T.V. Smith.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
