Five philosophers : Aristotle, Rene Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, William James / Edited by Philip Wheelwright, Peter Fuss. [print]

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Contents:
The nature of wisdom -- The four types of explanation -- Luck and chance -- Luck and purposive activity -- Interrelations of the four factors -- Evidence that nature is telic -- The role of necessity in nature -- Right attitude of the zoologist -- The potential and the actual -- Against philosophical determination -- The eternal unmoved mover -- _____________________________________________________
Second meditation: On the nature of the human mind -- Third meditation: On the existence of God -- Fourth meditation: Concerning truth and falsehood -- Fifth meditation: On the nature of material things -- Sixth meditation: On the exitance of material things -- ___________________________________________________
Division of the subject -- Of the ideas of the memory and imagination -- Of the connection or association of ideas -- Of relations -- Of modes and substances -- Of abstract ideas
Of the idea of eternal existence
Of probability, and the idea of cause and effect -- Why a cause is always necessary -- Of the inference from the impression to the idea -- Of the idea of necessary connection -- Rules by which to judge of causes and effects
Of personal identity -- ___________________________________________________
Distinction between analytic and synthetic judgements -- Synthetic apriori judgements in theoretical science -- Distinguishing characteristics of a critique of pure reason
Transcendental exposition of space -- Inference
Transcendental exposition of time -- Inference -- General considerations of transcendental aesthetic -- Conclusion of transcendental aesthetic
The pure concepts of understanding id est categories -- Deduction of categories -- Apriori conditions of experience -- The original synthetic unity of apperception -- Objective unity of self-consciousness -- Role of the categories in experience -- The schematism of the categories -- Distinction between phenomena and noumena
System of transcendental ideas -- The antinomy of pure reason -- First conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Second conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Third conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Fourth conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Critical solution of the cosmological problem -- The regulative principle of pure reason -- Solution of the third antinomy -- Solution of the fourth antinomy -- Concluding remark on the principle of antinomy -- The ideal of pure reason -- The argument of speculative reason -- Prove the evidence of a divine being -- The ontological proof -- The cosmological proof -- Source of the dialectic illusion -- The physio-theological proof -- ___________________________________________________
What pragmatism means -- Pragmatism's conception of truth.
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ARISTOLE.

The basics of knowledge and art -- The nature of wisdom -- The four types of explanation -- Luck and chance -- Luck and purposive activity -- Interrelations of the four factors -- Evidence that nature is telic -- The role of necessity in nature -- Right attitude of the zoologist -- The potential and the actual -- Against philosophical determination -- The eternal unmoved mover -- _____________________________________________________

RENE DESCARTES.

First meditation: On what can be doubted -- Second meditation: On the nature of the human mind -- Third meditation: On the existence of God -- Fourth meditation: Concerning truth and falsehood -- Fifth meditation: On the nature of material things -- Sixth meditation: On the exitance of material things -- ___________________________________________________

DAVID HUME. A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE.

PART ONE: OF IDEAS, THEIR ORIGIN, COMPOSITION, CONNECTION, ABSTRACTION, ETC.

Of the origin of our ideas -- Division of the subject -- Of the ideas of the memory and imagination -- Of the connection or association of ideas -- Of relations -- Of modes and substances -- Of abstract ideas

PART TWO: OF THE IDEAS OF SPACE AND TIME.

Of the idea of existence -- Of the idea of eternal existence

PART THREE: OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROBABILITY.

Of knowledge -- Of probability, and the idea of cause and effect -- Why a cause is always necessary -- Of the inference from the impression to the idea -- Of the idea of necessary connection -- Rules by which to judge of causes and effects

PART FOUR: OF THE SKEPTICAL AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.

Of skepticism with regards to the senses -- Of personal identity -- ___________________________________________________

IMMANUEL KANT.

INTRODUCTION.

Distinction between pure and empirical knowledge -- Distinction between analytic and synthetic judgements -- Synthetic apriori judgements in theoretical science -- Distinguishing characteristics of a critique of pure reason

TRANSCENDENTAL AESTHETIC.

SPACE.

Metaphysical exposition of space -- Transcendental exposition of space -- Inference

TIME.

Metaphysical exposition of time -- Transcendental exposition of time -- Inference -- General considerations of transcendental aesthetic -- Conclusion of transcendental aesthetic

TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC.

TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC.

Method of discovering categories -- The pure concepts of understanding id est categories -- Deduction of categories -- Apriori conditions of experience -- The original synthetic unity of apperception -- Objective unity of self-consciousness -- Role of the categories in experience -- The schematism of the categories -- Distinction between phenomena and noumena

TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC.

Transcendental illusion -- System of transcendental ideas -- The antinomy of pure reason -- First conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Second conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Third conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Fourth conflict of the transcendental ideas -- Critical solution of the cosmological problem -- The regulative principle of pure reason -- Solution of the third antinomy -- Solution of the fourth antinomy -- Concluding remark on the principle of antinomy -- The ideal of pure reason -- The argument of speculative reason -- Prove the evidence of a divine being -- The ontological proof -- The cosmological proof -- Source of the dialectic illusion -- The physio-theological proof -- ___________________________________________________

WILLIAM JAMES.

The will to believe -- What pragmatism means -- Pragmatism's conception of truth.

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