Toward Reunion in Philosophy

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Harvard University Press, 1956 - 308 pages
An examination of some of the main problems of contemporary analytic philosophy, in which it is argued that existential statements, neccessary truths and ethical judgments are not justified in fundamentally different ways.

Contents

FROM EXISTENCE TO DECISION
3
THE EXISTENCE OF MEANINGS
14
semantics of Mill 2 The confusions of Russell 3 The structure of Russells
37
ee views on the existence of physical objects 2 Russells skepticism 3
59
CATEGORIES AND POSTULATES
77
of discourse is not enough 6 Carnap ontology and analyticity 7 The cate
95
Metaphysics anD THE CRITERION OF MEANING
97
A PREPOSITIVISTIC VIEW OF THE A PRIORI
113
Analytic is a philosophers word 2 Conventionalism synonymy and platonism
158
THE NATURALISTIC FALLACY AND THE NATURE
167
SEMANTICS AND ETHICAL DISCOURSE
199
BELIEF PERFORMANCE AND JUSTIFICATION
216
ETHICAL ARGUMENT
227
Ethics Science and Logic
251
THE RIGHT TO BELIEVE
264
BEYOND POSITIVISM AND PRAGMATISM 279
279

A priori knowledge and the existence of universals 2 Ordinary a priori state
129
ARTIFICIAL RESCUE EFFORTS
148
Philosophy is partly normative 2 Ethics and science 3 No positivism no prag
287
Clearing the ground 2 The finite character of the logistic thesis 3 The uni
298

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