Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades. - Couverture rigide

Miller, Dickinson S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027705666 ISBN 13 : 9789027705662

Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1975

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027705666
• ISBN 13: 9789027705662
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 343
• Éditeur: Easton Loyd D.
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