1st Edition

The Nature of Thought Volume II

By Blanshard, Brand Copyright 2003
    536 Pages
    by Routledge

    536 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This is Volume I of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. Written in 1939, this is volume II of the Nature of Thought and includes the movement of reflection, invention, truth, and the goal of thought.

    Part 3 The Movement of Reflection; Chapter 18 The General Nature of Understanding; Chapter 19 How Reflection Starts; Chapter 20 Specifying the Problem; Chapter 21 Observation; Chapter 22 Invention and Association; Chapter 23 The Nature of Invention; Chapter 24 The Subconscious in Invention; Chapter 25 The Tests of Truth; Chapter 26 Coherence as the Nature of Truth; Chapter 27 Coherence and Degrees of Truth; Part 4 The Goal of Thought; Chapter 28 Empiricism and Necessity; Chapter 29 Formalism and Necessity; Chapter 30 Logical Positivism and Necessity; Chapter 31 Concrete Necessity and External Relations; Chapter 32 Concrete Necessity and Internal Relations;

    Biography

    Brand Blanshard, Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College.