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§ 2. The Prestige of Science .
83. The Agreement between Science and Common Sense
§ 4. The Properties of Bodies
§ 5. Explanation and Description in Science
§ 6. Conditions of Scientific Description.
7. Illustrations of Scientific Method. Galileo's Conception
of Acceleration.
§ 8. The Conception of Mass
§ 9. The Conservation of Energy
§ 10. The Analytical Version of Scientific Concepts
CHAPTER IV. NAÏVE AND CRITICAL NATURALISM.
1. The Two Varieties of Naturalism.
§ 2. Three Characteristic Philosophical Errors. 'The Specula-
tive Dogma'
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§ 3. 'Pseudo-simplicity,' and 'Indefinite Potentiality'
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RELIGION AND THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE
-§ 2. Naturalism and Supernaturalism
Science .
§ 10. The Experimentalism of H. Poincaré.
§ 11. The Failure of Critical Naturalism. The Priority of Logic
and Mathematics .
CHAPTER V.
§ 1. Religious Philosophy and the Limits of Science
§ 3. The General Character of Contemporary Criticism of
§ 4. The Fallibility of Science
5. The Disparagement of the Descriptive Method
§ 8. The 'Real' Cause and 'Mere' Description
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§ 6. The Ideal of Descriptive Economy.
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§ 7. The Option of Hypotheses .
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9. The Unreality of Space and Time. The Kantian Argu-
PART III
IDEALISM
CHAPTER VI. THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLE OF IDEALISM
1. The General Meaning of Modern Idealism
§ 2. Platonic Idealism, or Teleological Rationalism
§ 3. Rationalism Purged of Teleology by Spinoza
§ 4. The Idealistic Revolution
5. The Beginnings of Modern Idealism. The Dualistic Ver-
sion of Knowledge..
§ 6. Berkeley's Refutation of Dualism .
§ 7. Epistemological Monism
§ 8. Berkeley's Proofs of Idealism. 'Definition by Initial Pred-
ication'..
§ 9. The Argument from 'the Ego-centric Predicament'
10. The Cardinal Principle and the Berkeleyan Proofs in Con-
temporary Idealism
CHAPTER VII. OBJECTIVE OR TRANSCENDENTAL IDEALISM
1. The General Meaning of Post-Kantian Idealism
§ 2. The Sceptical Crisis in Hume
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§ 3. Kant to the Rescue. The 'Categories' and 'Synthetic
§ 9. The New Idealism and the Cardinal Principle
§ 10. The New Proof of Idealism from Synthetic Unity
§ 11. The Revival of the Berkeleyan Arguments
§ 12. Objective Idealism as an Escape from Subjectivism
CHAPTER VIII. ABSOLUTE IDEALISM AND RELIGION.
§ 1. The General Meaning of Absolutism
§ 2. Formalism, Arising from the Logical Basis of Absolutism. 166
§ 3. Equivocation Arising from the Attempt to Escape
Formalism
4. The Dogmatic Character of Absolutism. Agnosticism
§ 5. Transition to Absolute Idealism. The Absolute Cognitive
Consciousness.
6. Formalism in Absolute Idealism
7. Equivocation in Absolute Idealism
8. Dogmatism in Absolute Idealism
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§ 9. Summary of Idealism. Idealism and Civilization
§ 10. The Universalistic, or Leveling Tendency in Idealism . § 11. The Virtue and the Extravagance of Idealism
PART IV
PRAGMATISM
CHAPTER IX. THE PRAGMATIC THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
§ 1. The General Meaning of Pragmatism.
§ 2. The Pragmatist Conception of the Theory of Knowledge
§ 3. The Rôle of Ideas in Knowledge
§ 4. The Meaning of Truth.
5. Modes of Verification. Verification by Perception and by
Consistency
§ 6. Verification by Operation and by Sentiment
§ 7. Verification by General Utility
The Making of Reality
11. The Dilemma of Pragmatism
CHAPTER X. IMMEDIATISM versus INTELLECTUALISM
1. Definition of the Issue.
§ 2. Non-intellectual Experience, or Immediacy
§ 3. Immediacy Implied in Mediate Knowledge
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§ 4. The Abstractness of Concepts. Vicious Intellectualism" 228
§ 5. The Failure of Concepts to Grasp Reality. Radical Anti-
intellectualism..
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§ 6. The Failure of Anti-intellectualism to Understand the In-
tellectual Method. Concept as Function and as Content. 231
7. The Confusion between the Relations of Symbols and the
Relations Symbolized.
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§ 8. The Supposition that Concepts are Necessarily Privative.
9. The Misunderstanding Concerning Analysis.
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§ 10. The Supposed Superiority of the Immediacy that Precedes
Analysis
11. The Subjectivistic Version of Immediatism
12. The Realistic Version of Immediatism
CHAPTER XI. PLURALISM, INDeterminism and Religious FaitH 242
§ 1. Pluralism as the Sequel to Empiricism. The Additive
Character of Knowledge .
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§ 6. Indeterminism as the Sequel to Anti-intellectualism. Will
as itself the Author of Determinism.
254
§ 7. Determinism as an Intellectualistic Falsification of Tem-
poral Reality.
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§ 8. Freedom as Creative Activity
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§ 9. The Pragmatic Theory of Truth Applied to Religious Faith 265
10. Pragmatism and the Spirit of the Age
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PART V
REALISM
CHAPTER XII. A REALISTIC THEORY OF MIND
I. Introductory
§ 1. Realism as a Polemic
II. The Method of Introspection
§ 3. Mental Content as Revealed by Introspection
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§ 2. The Fundamental Importance of the Problem of Mind
4. The Neutral Elements of Mental Content. The Need of a
§ 6. Mental Action as the Feeling of Bodily Action
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III. The Method of General Observation
286
7. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing the Contents of
Another Mind.
§ 8. The Difficulty of Observing Mental Content. The Case of
Perception.
289
§ 9. Proprio-ceptive Sensations
292
§ 10. The Content of Desire, Memory and Thought.
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11. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing Mental Action
12. Mental Action as Nervous System
13. Mental Action as Interest
14. Mental Content as Identified by Interested Action
15. A Summary Definition of Mind
CHAPTER XIII. A REALISTIC THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
I. The Theory of Immanence
1. The Old Realism and the New
Independence of Experience
7. The Arguments for Independence. The Negative Argu- ment
§ 8. The Argument from the Externality of Relations
§ 10. The Argument from the Nature of Mind
III. Truth and Error.
2. The Duality of Mind and Body as a Difference of Organ-
ization.
§ 3. Representation as an Immanent Relation
II. The Theory of Independence
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§ 4. The Half-realisms. Independence of Finite Knowledge
§ 5. Independence of Mediate Knowledge
6. Thorough-going Realism.
or Consciousness .
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9. The Argument from the Distinction between Object and
Awareness
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11. The Realm of Subjectivity.
§ 12. The Sphere of Truth and Error
§ 13. Mistaking and Right Judging.
CHAPTER XIV. A REALISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
§ 1. Enlightenment and Disillusionment
§ 2. Realism and the Dependence of Value on Desire
§ 3. The Nature of Moral Value. The Right and the Best
§ 4. The Objectivity or Absoluteness of Value. Contemporary
Confusion of the Issue
5. The Difference between the Absoluteness and the Su-
premacy of Value..
§ 6. Value as Cause or Determination.
§ 7. Freedom, Positive and Negative
§ 8. The Grounds of Religious Belief
89. The Hazard of Faith
APPENDIX
THE PHILOSOPHY OF WILLIAM JAMES
I. Philosophy of Mind..
§ 1. The Place of the Problem of Mind in James's Philosophy
§ 2. Mind as Interested and Selective.