From a philosophical point of view : selected studies / / Morton White

• Autore: White Morton Gabriel <1917->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy
• Classificazione: 08.25
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue to A philosophy of culture (2002) -- Philosophy and man : an exhortation (1955) -- The social role of philosophy (1952) -- New horizons in philosophy (1960) -- A plea for an analytic philosophy of history (1953) -- Historical relativism and the evaluation of histories (2003) -- Historical inevitability (1956) -- Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003) -- John Dewey : a great philosopher of education (1966) -- Religion, politics, and the higher learning (1954) -- Religious commitment and higher education (1957) -- The university in transition (1966) -- Philosophy in a utopian institute for advanced study (1989) -- The analytic and the synthetic : an untenable dualism (1950) -- Ontological clarity and semantic obscurity (1951) -- On the church-frege solution of the paradox of analysis (1948) -- Oughts and cans (1979) -- Causation and action (1969) -- Hart and Honoré on causation in the law (1960) -- The question of free will : some preliminary remarks (1993) -- Harvard's philosophical heritage (1957) -- Experiment and necessity in Dewey's philosophy (1959) -- Value and obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949) -- Desire and desirability : a rejoinder to a posthumous reply by John Dewey (1996) -- Peirce's Summum Bonum and the ethical views of C.I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999) -- Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism (1986) -- Holistic pragmatism and ethics (2002) -- The psychologism of Hume and arithmetical truth (2003) -- Why annalists of ideas should be analysts of ideas (1975) -- The revolt against formalism in American social thought of the twentieth century (1947) -- Pragmatism and the revolt against formalism : revising some doctrines of William James (1986) -- The politics of epistemology (1989) -- Original sin, natural law, and politics (1956) -- Philosophy, The federalist, and the progressive era (1988) -- The American intellectual versus the American city (1961) -- The philosopher and the metropolis in America (1963) -- William James (1986) -- The later years of George Santayana (1963) -- English philosophy at mid-century : an American's impressions (1951) -- Memories of G.E. Moore (1959) -- W.V. Quine (2001).
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Morton White has spent a career building bridges among the increasingly fragmented worlds of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. From a Philosophical Point of View is a selection of White's best essays, written over a period of more than sixty years. Together these selections represent the belief that philosophers should reflect not only on mathematics and science but also on other aspects of culture, such as religion, art, history, law, education, and morality. White's essays cover the full range of his interests: studies in ethics, the theory of knowledge, and metaphysics as well as in the philosophy of culture, the history of pragmatism, and allied currents in social, political, and legal thought. The book also includes pieces on philosophers who have influenced White at different stages of his career, among them William James, John Dewey, G. E. Moore, and W. V. Quine. Throughout, White argues from a holistic standpoint against a sharp epistemological distinction between logical and physical beliefs and also against an equally sharp one between descriptive and normative beliefs. White maintains that once the philosopher abandons the dogma that the logical analysis of mathematics and physics is the essence of his subject, he frees himself to resume his traditional role as a student of the central institutions of civilization. Philosophers should function not merely as spectators of all time and existence, he argues, but as empirically minded students of culture who try to use some of their ideas for the benefit of society.
• Titolo autorizzato: From a philosophical point of view
• ISBN: 1-282-08737-1; 9786612087370; 1-4008-2646-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820128803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II