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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

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  • © 1975

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  1. Dickinson S. Miller
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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 3)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Dickinson S. Miller on Analysis, Pragmatism, and Welfare

    1. Dickinson S.Miller on Analysis, Pragmatism, and Welfare

      • Loyd D. Easton
      Pages 1-36

  3. Teachers and Teaching

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Fullerton and Philosophy

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 39-46

    3. A Student’s Impressions of William James

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 47-51

    4. James and Analysis

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 52-62

    5. George Santayana

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 63-74

    6. Is Philosophy a Good Training for the Mind?

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 75-87

  4. Analysis: The Method of Philosophy at Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The Relations of ‘Ought’ and ‘Is’

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 91-103

    3. Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable without it

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 104-131

    4. Is there not a Clear Solution of the Knowledge-Problem?

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 132-145

    5. A Debt to James

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 146-155

    6. Universals

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 156-183

    7. An Event in Modern Philosophy with Hume

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 184-200

    8. Hume’s Deathblow to Deductivism

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 201-219

    9. Moral Truth

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 220-227

  5. Religion and Human Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. What Religion has to do with it

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 231-235

    3. The Defense of the Faith Today

      • Dickinson S. Miller
      Pages 236-240
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About this book

When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela­ tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

  • Authors: Dickinson S. Miller

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1792-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1975

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0566-2Published: 31 May 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1794-7Published: 06 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1792-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 343

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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