F. C. S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism Selected Writings, 1891-1939

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F.C.S. Schiller (1864-1937) was the primary representative of the pragmatist movement in Europe for three decades. He was also a major figure in the personal idealism movement, and a proponent of incorporating evolution into philosophical thinking.

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List price: $68.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 6/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 788
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.552
Language: English

Hugh McDonald (New York, NY), assistant professor of philosophy at the CUNY New York City College of Technology, is the author of Radical Axiology: A First Philosophy of Values and John Dewey and Environmental Ethics.



Introduction: The Life and Career of F. C. S. Schiller, by John Shook



First Principles: Humanism, Personalism, Pluralism, Pragmatism


Introduction




Preface. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. vii-xxv



The Definition of Pragmatism and Humanism. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 1-21



Absolutism and the Dissociation of Personality. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 266-73



Humism and Humanism. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 228-48



The Meaning of Self. Mind 31 (1922), pp. 185-88



Why Humanism? Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements, First Series, ed. J. H. Muirhead (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1924), pp. 385-410



Theory and Practice. Must Philosophers Disagree? And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy(London and New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 164-81



First Philosophy: Metaphysics and Values


Introduction




The Ethical Basis of Metaphysics. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 1-17



Reality and 'Idealism'. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 110-27



The Place of Pessimism in Philosophy. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 157-65



Value. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. 12, ed. James Hastings (New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), pp. 584-89



Creation, Emergence, Novelty. Must Philosophers Disagree? And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 203-13



The Metaphysics of Change. Must Philosophers Disagree? And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 235-48



The Relativity of Metaphysics. Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 176-88



Evolution and Religion


Introduction




The Metaphysics of Evolution. Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution (London: Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co., 1891), pp. 170-211



Man and God. Riddles of the Sphinx: A Study in the Philosophy of Evolution (London: Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co., 1891), pp. 326-74



Darwinism and Design. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 128-56



The Ethical Significance of Immortality. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 250-65



Faith, Reason, and Religion. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 349-69



Pragmatism, Humanism, and Religion. Must Philosophers Disagree? And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (London and New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp. 306-19



Ethics and Politics


Introduction




Freedom and Responsibility. Humanism; Philosophical Essays, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 283-312



Is the Distinction between Moral Rightness and Wrongness Ultimate? Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Philosophy, ed. Gilbert Ryle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931), pp. 319-23



Ethics, Casuistry, and Life. Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 189-202



Eugenics as a Moral Ideal. Social Decay and Eugenical Reform (London: Constable and Co., 1932), pp. 28-47



Can Democracy Survive? Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 228-45



Ant-Men or Super-Men? Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 251-68



Truth


Introduction




Axioms as Postulates. Personal Idealism, ed. Henry Sturt (London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), pp. 47-133



Truth. Humanism: Philosophical Essays (London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), pp. 44-61



The Ambiguity of Truth. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 141-62



The Making of Truth. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 179-203



The Humanist Theory of Truth. Logic for Use: An introduction to the Voluntarist Theory of Knowledge (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929), pp. 145-74



Meaning and Logic


Introduction




The Relations of Logic and Psychology. Studies in Humanism, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 71-113



The General Nature of Inference. Formal Logic: A Scientific and Social Problem (London: Macmillan, 1912), pp. 165-78



The Meaning of'Meaning'. Mind 29 (1920), pp. 385-99



The Logic of Belief. Problems of Belief (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924), pp. 94-106



Relevance. Logic for Use: An Introduction to the Voluntarist Theory of Knowledge (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929), pp. 75-94



Personalist Logic. Must Philosophers Disagree? And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy London and New York: Macmillan, 1934), pp.43-46



Multi-Valued Logics-and Others. Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 298-318



Scientific Method


Introduction




The Biologic of Judgment Logic for Use: An Introduction to the Voluntarist Theory of Knowledge (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929), pp. 193-207



Scientific Discovery and Logical Proof. Studies in the History and Method of Science, ed. Charles Joseph Singer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917), vol. 1, pp. 235-289



Scientific Method. Logic for Use: An Introduction to the Voluntarist Theory of Knowledge (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929), pp. 353-415



How Far Does Science Need Determinism? Our Human Truths (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), pp. 168-175


Bibliography of F. C. S. Schiller, compiled



Index