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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978- / 978-9401017947 / 9789401017947

Verlag: Springer Netherland

Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2011

Seiten: 343

Auflage: 1

Zielgruppe: Research

Herausgegeben von Loyd D. Easton
Autor(en): Dickinson S. Miller

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