An Introduction to Philosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 396 pages of information about An Introduction to Philosophy.

An Introduction to Philosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 396 pages of information about An Introduction to Philosophy.
    on substance, 198;
    his rationalism, 206-209;
    the “natural light,” 208;
    his attempt at a critical philosophy, 214;
    his rules of method, 214;
    provisional rules of life, 301-302;
    reference given, 306;
    reference to his automatism, 308;
    references to the “Meditations,” 312. 
  Determinism:  155-159; references, 309-310. 
  Dewey, John:  312-314. 
  Dogmatism:  Kant’s use of term, 211-212. 
  Dualism:  what, 193;
    varieties of, 202-204;
    the present volume dualistic, 204;
    Hamilton’s, 312.

  Eleatics:  their doctrine, 4. 
  Empedocles:  his doctrine, 4; a pluralist, 205. 
  Empiricism:  the doctrine, 209-211;
    Kant on, 212;
    critical empiricism, 218-219. 
  Energy:  conservation of, 151-154. 
  Epicureans:  their view of philosophy, 7-8; their materialism, 102. 
  Epiphenomenon:  the mind as, 162. 
  Epistemology:  its place among the philosophical sciences, 247-249. 
  Ethics:  and the mechanism of nature, 159-164;
    common sense ethics, 236-240;
    Whewell criticised, 238-240;
    philosophy and, 240-242;
    utility of, 265-267;
    references, 315. 
  Evidence:  in philosophy, 296-298. 
  Existence:  of material things, 56-58; also, 165-192. 
  Experience:  suggestions of the word, 58;
    Hume’s doctrine of what it yields, 170-171;
    Descartes and Locke, 178;
    Kant’s view of, 179;
    empiricism, 209-211;
    critical empiricism, 218-219. 
  Experimental Psychology:  its scope, 234-235. 
  Explanation:  of relation of mind and body, 125-126. 
  External World:  its existence, 32 ff.;
    plain man’s knowledge of, 32-36;
    psychologist’s attitude, 36-38;
    the “telephone exchange,” 38-44;
    what the external world is, 45-58;
    its existence discussed, 56-58;
    a mechanism, 147-150;
    knowledge of, theories, 165-180;
    Descartes on, 207-208;
    psychologist’s attitude discussed, 230-234. 
  Falckenberg:  311, 316. 
  Fate:  158; literature on fatalism, 309-310. 
  Fichte:  on philosophic method, 10; solipsistic utterances, 133. 
  Final Cause:  what, 161. 
  “Form” and “Matter”:  the distinction between, 82-83;
    space as “form,” 82-84;
    time as “form,” 94;
    Kant’s doctrine of “forms,” 179;
    the same criticised, 216-217. 
  Free-will:  and the order of nature, 154-159;
    determinism and “free-will-ism,” 155-159;
    literature referred to, 309-310.

  God:  revealed in the world, 163-164;
    Berkeley on argument for, 190-191;
    Spinoza on God or substance, 199;
    Descartes’ argument for, 208;
    influence of belief on ethics, 241;
    conceptions of, 252-253;
    relation to the world, 253-254;
    monistic conception of, 312;
    references, 314. 
  Greek Philosophy:  Pre-Socratic characterized, 2-5;
    conception of philosophy from Sophists to Aristotle, 5-7;
    the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics, 7-8. 
  Green, T. H.:  218, 315.

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