1st Edition

British Philosophy in the Mid-Century A Cambridge Symposium

Edited By C.A. Mace Copyright 1966
408 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1957, reissuing the second edition of 1966 here, British Philosophy in the Mid-Century provides an authoritative review of some of the outstanding developments in British philosophy at the time. The papers included here had their origin in a course of lectures at Cambridge arranged by the British Council, but many of the contributions have been revised and extended to present... Read more

Foreword by E.W.F. Tomlin

Editorial Preface to First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

1. The Local Historical Background of Contemporary British Philosophy
C.D. Broad

2. Recent Developments in British Ethical Thought
A.C. Ewing

3. Some Trends in the Philosophy of Mind
C.A. Mace

4. Some Types of Philosophical Thinking
S Körner

5. Probability and Induction
R.B. Braithwaite

6. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Experiment and Proof
A. Ambrose and M. Lazerowitz

7.Visual Sense-Data
G.E. Moore

8. Perception
A.J. Ayer

9. Theory of Meaning
Gilbert Ryle

10. The Interpretation of Language: Words and Concepts
Stuart Hampshire

11. Metaphysical and Ideographic Language
Margaret Masterman

12. Some Problems of Modern Aesthetics
Theodore Redpath

13. Some Philosophical Problems of Cosmology
H. Bondi

Biography

C.A. Mace