Abstract This essay examines logical empiricism and American pragmatism, arguing that American philosophy’s embrace of logical empiricism in the 1930s was not a turning away from Dewey’s pragmatism.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines the perspective from which Bas van Fraassen, in his book, The Empirical Stance, explains the project of empiricism. I ...

THIS booklet contains a strange medley of fact and fiction, though apparently written with a good motive, for in his preface the author acknowledges the “splendid efforts of our scientists and medical ...

"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. "Fugitive Science excavates this story, uncovering the dynamic scientific engagements and experiments of African American writers, performers, and other ...

Many of us who are engaged in the world of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy feel like underdogs. We feel that our theories have been devalued, dismissed by managed care, American medicine, ...

THERE is among the general public a perennial tendency to exalt and honour the man of affairs—the man whose business it is to pose as figurehead and carry through great schemes in the face of the ...