CHAPTER V

, THE PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM OF SCIENCE.[434:A]

PLATO: _Republic_, Book VII, 526 ff. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan. _Phaedo_, 96 ff. Translation by Jowett.

BERKELEY: _Alciphron_, the Fourth Dialogue. _Siris_, especially 234-264. (On the failure of the scientist to grasp the deeper truth respecting causes and substances.)

DESCARTES: _Discourse on Method._ Translation by Veitch.

SPINOZA: _On the Improvement of the Understanding._ Translation by Elwes.

KANT: _Critique of Pure Reason--Transcendental Aesthetic_ and _Transcendental Analytic._ Translation by Max Mueller. (Studies of the Method of Science.)

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WARD, JAMES: _Naturalism and Agnosticism._ (Full but clear account of recent development of natural science, and criticism of its use as philosophy.)

MACH, ERNST: _Science of Mechanics._ (Historical and methodological.)

JAMES, WILLIAM: _Principles of Psychology_, Vol. II, Chap. xxviii. (Emphasizes the practical interest underlying science.)

ROYCE, JOSIAH: _The World and the Individual, Second Series, Man and Nature._ (Interpretation of the province of natural science from the stand-point of absolute idealism.)

PEARSON, KARL: _The Grammar of Science._ (The limits of science from the scientific stand-point.)

CLIFFORD, W. K.: _Lectures and Essays: On the Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought; The Philosophy of the Pure Sciences; On the Ethics of Belief._

HUXLEY, T. H.: _Method and Results._ (The positivistic position.)

MUENSTERBERG, HUGO: _Psychology and Life._ (Epistemological limitations of natural science applied to psychology, from idealistic stand-point.)

FULLERTON, G. E.: _A System of Metaphysics_, Part II.

TAYLOR, A. E.: _Elements of Metaphysics_, Book III.

CHAPTERS VI AND VII, THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.

PLATO: _Dialogues_, especially _Protagoras_ and _Theaetetus_. Translation by Jowett. (The actual genesis of special problems.)

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KUELPE, OSWALD: _Introduction to Philosophy._ Translation by Pillsbury and Titchener. (Full and accurate account of the traditional terms and doctrines of philosophy.)

HIBBEN, J. G.: _Problems of Philosophy._ (Brief and elementary.)

SIDGWICK, HENRY: _Philosophy, its Scope and Relations._

PAULSEN, FRIEDRICH: _Introduction to Philosophy._ Translation by Thilly.

BALDWIN, J. M.: _Dictionary of Philosophy._ (Full, and convenient for reference.)

FERRIER, J. F.: _Lectures on Greek Philosophy._ (Interpretation of the beginning and early development of philosophy.)

BURNET, J.: _Early Greek Philosophy._ Translation of the sources.

FAIRBANKS, A.: _The First Philosophers of Greece._

GOMPERZ, TH.: _Greek Thinkers_, Vol. I. Translation by Magnus. (On the first development of philosophical problems.)

PALMER, G. H.: _The Field of Ethics._ (On the relations of the ethical problem.)

PUFFER, ETHEL: _The Psychology of Beauty._ (On the relations of the aesthetical problem.)

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