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PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISBN-109027705631
ISBN-139789027705631
eBay Product ID (ePID)118082421
Product Key Features
Number of Pages218 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCausing, Perceiving and Believing : an Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse
Publication Year1975
SubjectPhilosophers, History & Surveys / Modern
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter H. Hare
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Biography & Autobiography
SeriesPhilosophical Studies Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight16.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN74-004899
Series Volume Number6
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentI. Introduction.- II. Causality and Necessity.- III. Human Agency.- IV. Sensing and Objective Reference.- V. Substance and the Mind-Body Relation.- VI. Propositions, Truth and Signs.- VII. Ethics and Education.- VIII. Aesthetics.- IX. Ethics of Belief.- X. Philosophy of Religion.- XI. Paranormal Phenomena.- XII. Meta-philosophy.- Bibliography of the Writings of C. J. Ducasse.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.
SynopsisAlthough a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 "[i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe., Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 " i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe.
LC Classification NumberB800.2-804
