Principles of emergent realism : philosophical essays by Roy Wood Sellars

Title
  1. Principles of emergent realism : philosophical essays by Roy Wood Sellars / compiled and edited by W. Preston Warren.
Published by
  1. St. Louis, Mo., W.H. Green [1970]
Author
  1. Sellars, Roy Wood, 1880-1973.

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Description
  1. xxvii, 352 pages; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Modern concepts of philosophy
Uniform title
  1. Modern concepts of philosophy.
Subject
  1. Realism
  2. Mind and body
  3. Values
  4. Religion > Philosophy
  5. Mind and body
  6. Realism
  7. Religion > Philosophy
  8. Values
  9. Realismus Philosophie
  10. Réalisme (philosophie)
  11. Esprit et corps
  12. Valeurs (philosophie)
  13. Philosophie de la religion
  14. Realismus (Philosophie)
Contents
  1. Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Basic explanatory conceptions. Introduction -- Sensations as guides to perceiving -- Referential transcendence -- Causality and substance.
  2. Part II. The development of referential physical realism -- Introduction to essays -- In quest of a functionally definitive realism. Is there a cognitive relation? -- A thing and its properties -- The status of the categories -- Epistemological dualism vs. metaphysical dualism -- A re-examination of critical realism -- A clarification of critical realism -- Why naturalism and not materialism -- Is naturalism enough? Reformed materialism and intrinsic endurance.
  3. Part III. The mind-body test case. Introduction to the essays -- A fourth progression in the relation of mind and body -- Consciousness and conservation -- Is consciousness alien to the physical -- The double-knowledge approach to the mind-body problem -- An analytic approach to the mind-body problem.
  4. Part IV. Other tests of emergent realism: the theory of truth and the theory of value. Introduction -- The theory of truth -- "True" as contextually implying correspondence -- The theory of value -- Can a reformed materialism do justice to values? -- In what sense do value judgements and moral judgements have objective import? -- Guided causality, using reason, and "free-will."
  5. Part V. Other tests of emergent realism: social philosophy and philosophy of religion -- Social philosophy -- Introduction to social philosophy -- Socialism and democracy -- Three stages of socialism -- Reason and revolution -- The quality of democracy -- Objectives and priorities -- Introduction to philosophy of religion -- The next step in religion (1918) -- Naturalizing the spiritual (1928) -- A humanist manifesto (1933) -- Cosmic perspective -- Bibliography of the writings of Roy Wood Sellars -- Bibliographical Supplement -- Index.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 337-343.