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American philosophy
Analytic philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction
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Bertrand Russell
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Causality
Concept
Consciousness
Consideration
Contingency (philosophy)
Criticism
Deontological ethics
Dualism (philosophy of mind)
Empiricism
Epistemology
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Ethics
Explanation
Feeling
G. E. Moore
George Santayana
Historicism
Holism
Hypothesis
Idealism
Ideology
Illustration
Inference
Inquiry
John Dewey
John Stuart Mill
Josiah Royce
Lecture
Logic
Logical positivism
Logical truth
Morality
Narration
Natural science
Nelson Goodman
Obligation
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophical analysis
Philosophy
Philosophy of culture
Philosophy of history
Philosophy of science
Political philosophy
Political science
Positivism
Pragmatism
Prediction
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Psychology
Rational animal
Rationalism
Reason
Religion
Science
Scientific method
Scientist
Social theory
The Philosopher
Theology
Theory
Thought
Transcendentalism
Utilitarianism
Willard Van Orman Quine
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691119595
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Morton White is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study. Earlier, he was Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His most recent book is "A Philosophy of Culture" (Princeton).
