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Originally published in 1964. In four essays, Professor Mandelbaum
challenges some of the most common assumptions of contemporary
epistemology. Through historical analyses and critical argument, he
attempts to show that one cannot successfully sever the connections
between philosophic and scientific accounts of sense perception.
While each essay is independent of the others, and the argument of
each must therefore be judged on its own merits, one theme is
common to all: that critical realism, as Mandelbaum calls it, is a
viable epistemological position, even though some schools of
thought hold it in low esteem.
Originally published in 1967. Focusing on key philosophers and the
tenants of their thought, Phenomenology and Existentialism forms a
wide-ranging introduction to two important movements in modern
philosophy. Included are essays by Roderick M. Chisholm on
Brentano, Aron Gurwitsch on Husserl, E.F. Kaelin on Heidegger, J.
Glenn Gray on Heidegger, George L. Kline on Hegel and Marx, James
M. Edie on Sartre, Frederick A. Olafson on Merleau-Ponty,Herbert
Spiegelberg on Phenomenology and psychology, and Albert William
Levi on the alienation of man.
Originally published in 1971. The purpose of this book is to draw
attention to important aspects of thought in the nineteenth
century. While its central concerns lie within the philosophic
tradition, materials drawn from the social sciences and elsewhere
provide important illustrations of the intellectual movements that
the author attempts to trace. This book aims at examining
philosophic modes of thought as well as sifting presuppositions
held in common by a diverse group of thinkers whose antecedents and
whose intentions often had little in common. After a preliminary
tracing of the main strands of continuity within philosophy itself,
the author concentrates on how, out of diverse and disparate
sources, certain common beliefs and attitudes regarding history,
man, and reason came to pervade a great deal of nineteenth-century
thought. Geographically, this book focuses on English, French, and
German thought. Mandelbaum believes that views regarding history
and man and reason pose problems for philosophy, and he offers
critical discussions of some of those problems at the conclusions
of parts 2, 3, and 4.
Originally published in 1987. Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers
a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and
necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these
concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza,
through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of
social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the
character of institutions in terms of their individual purposes,
whereas others have stressed relationships of necessity among
society's institutions. Mandelbaum discusses chance, choice, and
necessity at length and reaches some provocative conclusions about
the ways in which they are interwoven in human affairs.
Originally published in 1977. In this major work, an overview of
the structure of historical writing, Maurice Mandelbaum clarifies
some of the problems concerning the nature of history as a
discipline, of what constitutes explanation in history, and whether
historical knowledge is as reliable as other forms of knowledge.
The work is divided into three parts. The first part provides an
analytic account of different types of historical inquiry. The
second treats at length the nature of causal explanation in
everyday life and in science and considers the relation between
causes and laws. The final part analyzes the concept of objectivity
and estimates both the extent to which the inquiries of historians
can be said to be objective and the limits of that objectivity in
some types of historical accounts.
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