The Revolt Against Dualism (Paperback)

THE REVOLT AGAINST DUALISM PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF PAUL CARUS EDITOR OF THE OPEN COURT AND THE MONIST 1888-1919 THE REVOLT AGAINST DUALISM An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas ARTHUR O. LOVEJOY PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY W. W. NORTON COMPANY, INC. Publishers CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE ix LECTURE I. CARTESIAN DUALISM AND NATURAL DUALISM i II. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE REVOLT AND ITS OUTCOME . 34 III. THE SECOND PHASE OBJECTIVE RELATIVISM ... 79 IV. THE OUTCOME OF THE SECOND PHASE 101 V. MR. WHITEHEAD AND THE DENIAL OF SIMPLE LOCA TION 156 VI. MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE UNIFICATION OF MIND AND MATTER I 190 VII. MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE UNIFICATION OF MIND AND MATTER II 222 VIII. DUALISM AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD 257 IX. THE NATURE OF KNOWING AS A NATURAL EVENT . . 303 INDEX 323 PREFACE The principal purpose of this volume is not to present a private and original speculation, but to show, through a critical survey of the reflection of the greater part of a generation of philosophers in America and Great Britain upon two important philosophical issues, that certain conclusions with respect to those issues have thereby been definitely established. The practise of philosophiz ing in vacuo I have always regarded with a distaste and suspicion. Philosophy seems to me essentially a collective and cooperative business. Effective cooperation among philosophers consists, it is true, primarily in disagreement. For, given a sufficiently well de fined problem, philosophy can really get forward with it only by bringing together in their logical interconnection all the considera tions which have occurred, orare likely to occur, to acute and philosophically initiated minds as significantly pertinent to that problem. These considerations will always be numerous, they will always, during the progress of any philosophical inquiry, be con flicting, and they must be contributed by many minds of diverse types and different training and preconceptions. But no typical and, so to say, normal consideration can with safety be left unconsidered, if the philosophers distinctive but difficult duty of logical circum spection is to be observed, and if the joint inquiry is to be brought to a critically reasoned and convincing result a result which may fairly objectively be said to be more probable than any alternative, at least in the light of the existing state of empirical knowledge, and of the relevant reflections which have thus far presented themselves to the human mind. The true procedure of philosophy as a science as distinct from the philosophic idiosyncrasies of in dividuals is thus that of a Platonic dialogue on a grand scale, in which the theses, proposed proofs, objections, rejoinders, of nu merous interlocutors are focused upon a given question, and the argument gradually shapes itself, through its own immanent dia lectic, to a conclusion. It is this conception of the method in which fruitful philosophical inquiry is to be conducted that has determined the procedure fol lowed in the greater part of the following lectures. I have tried to review what seem the main points that have been brought for ward in the debate upon the two questions here chiefly dealt with and, in so far as is consistent with brevity, I have for the most part ix x PREFACE put those points which to me seem unconvincing inthe terms of those writers who have so far as I recall best presented them. I am very far from meaning by this that I conceive such a method to be adequately exemplified in this volume. It is not to be assumed that all the arguments which have been advanced in twenty-five years of many-sided discussion with respect to these questions are here expounded, analyzed and weighed...

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Imprint:	Read Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	March 2007
Authors:	Arthur O. Lovejoy
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-1-4067-4953-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4067-4953-2
Barcode:	9781406749533

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