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Book SynopsisOne of the important philosophers, Morton White has spent a career building bridges among the fragmented worlds of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. This is a selection of White's best essays, which represent the belief that philosophers should reflect on mathematics and science, and also on other aspects of culture.
Trade Review"From a Philosophical Point of View has an intellectual unity that results when a single mind of real ability looks about and surveys a wide variety of interesting issues. The author's adroit prose makes it a pleasure to read his discussions. And his wide reading in many fields endows his material with solidity and depth of informative range." - Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh"
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Introduction: What I Have Learned by Rereading These Essays, pg. 1*Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER 1 Prologue to A Philosophy of Culture (2002), pg. 5*CHAPTER 2 Philosophy and Man: An Exhortation (1955), pg. 9*CHAPTER 3 The Social Role of Philosophy (1952), pg. 14*CHAPTER 4. New Horizons in Philosophy (1960), pg. 21*Introduction, pg. 31*CHAPTER 5 A Plea for an Analytic Philosophy of History (1953), pg. 33*CHAPTER 6 Historical Relativism and the Evaluation of Histories (2003), pg. 40*CHAPTER 7 Historical Inevitability (1956), pg. 51*CHAPTER 8. Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003), pg. 56*Introduction, pg. 69*CHAPTER 9. John Dewey: A Great Philosopher of Education (1966), pg. 71*CHAPTER 10. Religion, Politics, and the Higher Learning (1954), pg. 74*CHAPTER 11. Religious Commitment and Higher Education (1957), pg. 81*CHAPTER 12. The University in Transition (1966), pg. 88*CHAPTER 13. Philosophy in a Utopian Institute for Advanced Study (1989), pg. 91*Introduction, pg. 95*CHAPTER 14. The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism (1950), pg. 97*CHAPTER 15. Ontological Clarity and Semantic Obscurity (1951), pg. 107*CHAPTER 16. On the Church-Frege Solution of the Paradox of Analysis (1948), pg. 112*CHAPTER 17. Oughts and Cans (1979), pg. 116*CHAPTER 18. Causation and Action (1969), pg. 121*CHAPTER 19. Hart and Honore on Causation in the Law (1960), pg. 130*CHAPTER 20. The Question of Free Will: Some Preliminary Remarks (1993), pg. 134*Introduction, pg. 141*CHAPTER 21. Harvard's Philosophical Heritage (1957), pg. 143*CHAPTER 22. Experiment and Necessity in Dewey's Philosophy (1959), pg. 149*CHAPTER 23. Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949), pg. 160*CHAPTER 24. Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey (1996), pg. 167*CHAPTER 25. Peirce's Summum Bonum and the Ethical Views of C. I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999), pg. 178*CHAPTER 26. Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine's Holism (1986), pg. 186*CHAPTER 27. Holistic Pragmatism and Ethics (2002), pg. 199*CHAPTER 28. The Psychologism of Hume and Arithmetical Truth (2003), pg. 211*Introduction, pg. 215*CHAPTER 29. Why Annalists of Ideas Should Be Analysts of Ideas (1975), pg. 217*CHAPTER 30. The Revolt against Formalism in American Social Thought of the Twentieth Century (1947), pg. 227*CHAPTER 31. Pragmatism and the Revolt against Formalism: Revising Some Doctrines of William James (1986), pg. 243*CHAPTER 32. The Politics of Epistemology (1989), pg. 255*CHAPTER 33. Original Sin, Natural Law, and Politics (1956), pg. 270*CHAPTER 34. Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Progressive Era (1988), pg. 284*CHAPTER 35. The American Intellectual versus the American City (1961), pg. 299*CHAPTER 36. The Philosopher and the Metropolis in America (1963), pg. 310*INTRODUCTION, pg. 321*CHAPTER 37. William James (1986), pg. 323*CHAPTER 38. The Later Years of George Santayana (1963), pg. 331*CHAPTER 39. English Philosophy at Midcentury: An American's Impressions (1951), pg. 333*CHAPTER 40. Memories of G. E. Moore (1959), pg. 339*CHAPTER 41. W. V. Quine (2001), pg. 344*Acknowledgments, pg. 349*Index, pg. 353
