Reason and Nature: An Essay on the Meaning of Scientific Method

First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread craving for philosophical light at a time of scant such offerings, Morris R. Cohen aimed to demonstrate here the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s. The volume bears particular relation to George Santayanas Life of Reason and Bertrand Russells Principles of Mathematics and explores areas including the character of the insurgence against reason and reason in the contexts of the natural and social sciences.