Toward Reunion in PhilosophyHarvard 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 |