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.

  Mach:  14. 
  Mackenzie:  315. 
  Malebranche:  referred to, 142. 
  Martineau:  315. 
  Materialism:  primitive man’s notion of mind, 100-101;
    materialism in the Greek philosophy, 101-102;
    refutation of, 111-132;
    general account of, 194-197. 
  Mathematics:  nature of mathematical knowledge, 23-25;
    arithmetic compared with logic, 225-226;
    mathematical relations and cause and effect, 257;
    mathematical methods, 256-257. 
  Matter:  what is meant by material things, 51-58;
    the material world a mechanism, 147-150. 
  “Matter” and “Form”:  see “Form” and “Matter.” 
  McCosh:  on mind and body, 120. 
  Mechanism:  the material world a, 147-150;
    objections to the doctrine, 148-150;
    mind and mechanism, 151-154;
    mechanism and morals, 159-164;
    mechanism and teleology, reference, 310. 
  Metaphysician:  on the mind, 111 ff. 
  Metaphysics:  psychology and, 230-234;
    distinguished from philosophy, 244-245;
    uncertainty of, 247;
    utility of, 269-272;
    traditional divisions of, 315. 
  Method:  scientific method, 256-259. 
  Middle Ages:  view of philosophy in, 8-9. 
  Mill, J. S.:  the argument for other minds, 136-138;
    on permanent possibilities of sensation, 289;
    his logic, 314. 
  Mind:  the child’s notion of, 100;
    regarded as breath, 101;
    suggestions of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew words for mind or
      soul, 101;
    materialistic views of, in Greek philosophy, 101-102;
    Plato and Aristotle on nature of, 102-103;
    doctrine of Plotinus, 103;
    of Cassiodorus, 103;
    of Augustine, 104;
    of Descartes, 105-106;
    modern common sense notions of mind, 106-110;
    mind as substance, Locke quoted, 108-109;
    psychologist’s notion of, 110-111;
    what the mind is, 111-114;
    place of mind in nature, 151-154;
    minds active, 162-163;
    see also, Mind and Body, and Other Minds. 
  Mind and Body:  is the mind in the body, 115-117;
    plain man’s notion of, 116;
    interactionism, 117-121;
    doctrine of Descartes and his successors, 119-120;
    plain man as interactionist, 120;
    McCosh quoted, 120-121;
    objection to interactionism, 121;
    parallelism, 121-126;
    its foundation in experience, 123-124;
    meaning of word “concomitance,” 123-125;
    time and place of mental phenomena, 126-129;
    objections to parallelism, 129-132;
    Clifford’s parallelism criticised, 130;
    mental phenomena and causality, 129;
    double sense of word “concomitance,” 131-132;
    mind and the mechanism of the world, 151-154;
    mechanism and morals, 159-164;
    “concomitant phenomena” and attainment of ends, 162;
    references given on other minds and mind-stuff, 309;
    see also, Other Minds. 

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