Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)Science, material, idealism, pragmaticism, history of scientific thought. With Buchler's book, best way to approach notoriously cryptic philosopher. Features 24 selections including "The Place of Our Age in the History of Civilization," "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man," "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," and "The Fixation of Belief." |
Contents
The Place of Our Age in the History | 4 |
Questions Concerning Certain Faculties | 27 |
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities | 41 |
Critical Review of Berkeleys Idealism | 75 |
1835 | 91 |
How to Make Our Ideas Clear | 135 |
The Architecture of Theories | 157 |
What Pragmatism | 199 |
Kepler | 250 |
Conclusion of the History of Science Lectures | 257 |
Notes | 263 |
Letters to Samuel P Langley and Hume | 275 |
Research and Teaching in Physics | 325 |
Definition and Function of a University | 331 |
Logic of Mathematics in Relation to Education | 338 |
Science and Immortality | 345 |
Issues of Pragmaticism | 205 |
Lessons of the History of Science | 228 |
Letters to Lady Welby | 380 |
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