E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0428-5 (ISBN)
This book examines Burtt's public, academic and personal life. From his politics of conscience after World War I on through the Cold War Burtt is shown to be a man of unparalleled integrity, whose relentless search for philosophic understanding drove his more quixotic philosophical quests and steered his personal life, including its tragic dimension, toward simple virtue.
The many who have been affected by The Metaphysical Foundations will be especially interested in this new perspective on the life and thought of its author. Those who have not read Burtt's books might be inspired to study this unusual American thinker.
1: Columbia University in the 1920’s: The Young Radical Philosophers.- 2: The Idealists: James Harvey and the Genetic Method of History, John Dewey and Reflective Thinking.- 3: The Realists Who Sharpened the Edges of Burtt’s Ideas.- 4: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science.- 5: The Chicago School of Pragmatism.- 6: Religious Humanism.- 7: Burtt’s New Philosophy of Mind.- 8: The Genesis of Hypothesis and the Metaphysics of Empirical Theory.- 9: Burtt’s Newton and the Debate Over the Rationality of Early Modern Science.- 10: What Happened to the Metaphysical Foundations and Burtt’s Interest in the History of Science.- 11: Burtt’s Philosophy After 1935.- 12: A Return to the Ideas in the Metaphysical Foundations.- Conclusion.- Notes.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2002 |
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Reihe/Serie | Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 226 |
Zusatzinfo | X, 300 p. |
Verlagsort | New York, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Naturwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4020-0428-1 / 1402004281 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4020-0428-5 / 9781402004285 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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