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'

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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

3. Equivocation Arising from the Attempt to Escape

5. Transition to Absolute Idealism. The Absolute Cognitive

Consciousness.

§ 4. The Dogmatic Character of Absolutism. Agnosticism

§ 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 Role 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

8. The Realistic Version of Pragmatism.

11. The Dilemma of Pragmatism

CHAPTER X. IMMEDIATISM versus INTELLECTUALISM

§ 1. Definition of the Issue

§ 2. Non-intellectual Experience, or Immediacy

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§ 3. Immediacy Implied in Mediate Knowledge

§ 4. The Abstractness of Concepts.

Vicious Intellectualism"

§ 5. The Failure of Concepts to Grasp Reality. Radical Anti-

intellectualism.

§ 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.

§ 8. The Supposition that Concepts are Necessarily Privative . 234

§ 9. The Misunderstanding Concerning Analysis.

§ 10. The Supposed Superiority of the Immediacy that Precedes

Analysis

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CHAPTER XI. PLURALISM, INDETERMINISM AND RELIGIOUS FAITH 242

§ 11. The Subjectivistic Version of Immediatism.

§ 12. The Realistic Version of Immediatism

§ 1. Pluralism as the Sequel to Empiricism. The Additive

Character of Knowledge .

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§ 2. Pluralism and External Relations.

3. Pluralism as a Philosophy of Religion.

§ 4. Indeterminism as the Sequel to Pluralism

§ 5. Indeterminism and the Reality of Time .

§ 6. Indeterminism as the Sequel to Anti-intellectualism. Will

as itself the Author of Determinism.

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§ 7. Determinism as an Intellectualistic Falsification of Tem-

poral Reality.

§ 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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§ 2. The Fundamental Importance of the Problem of Mind

II. The Method of Introspection

3. Mental Content as Revealed by Introspection

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

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7. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing the Contents of

Another Mind.

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8. The Difficulty of Observing Mental Content. The Case of

Perception.

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9. Proprio-ceptive Sensations .

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10. The Content of Desire, Memory and Thought.

§ 11. The Alleged Impossibility of Observing Mental Action

12. Mental Action as Nervous System

14. Mental Content as Identified by Interested Action

15. A Summary Definition of Mind

2. The Duality of Mind and Body as a Difference of Organ-

ization.

§ 3. Representation as an Immanent Relation

II. The Theory of Independence

§ 4. The Half-realisms. Independence of Finite Knowledge

5. Independence of Mediate Knowledge

§ 6. Thorough-going Realism.

or Consciousness .

Independence of Experience

§ 7. The Arguments for Independence. The Negative Argu-

ment

§ 8. The Argument from the Externality of Relations

9. The Argument from the Distinction between Object and

Awareness.

§ 10. The Argument from the Nature of Mind

III. Truth and Error.

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

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WILLIAM JAMES

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I. Philosophy of Mind..

§ 2. Mind as Interested and Selective.

§ 3. The Relational or Functional Theory of Consciousness

4. The Experience of Activity.

II. Theory of Knowledge

§ 5. The Function of Cognition.

6. The Pragmatic Nature of Truth

1. The Place of the Problem of Mind in James's Philosophy. 349

7. Empiricism

§ 8. Percepts and Concepts. The Critique of Intellectualism