Bøger af James K. Feibleman

Ethical problems are for the most part referred to socially established moralities, and moralities are socially established not on the basis of philosophy but rather by some sponsoring insti or politics. For it stands to reason that an ethics cannot be socially established if there is no ethics to establish.

Toward A Phenomenological Aesthetic of Cinema.- Is Gracefulness A Supervenient Property?.- Value and Artistic Value in Le Senne¿s Philosophy.- Bad Art.- Psychical Distance and Temporality.- C. I. Lewis and the Paradox of the Esthetic.- On the Nature of Ultimate Values in the Fine Arts.

The Philosophy of George Herbert Mead (1863¿1931):.- Mead¿s Doctrine of the Past:.- Symbolic Forms; Cassirer and Santayana:.- In Defense of Santayana¿s Theory of Expression:.- Activity as a Source of Knowledge in American Pragmatism:.- A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger:.

Husserl¿s Philosophy of Intersubjectivity in Relation to his Rational Ideal:.- The Impact of Science on Society:.- The Social Import of Empiricism:.- The Social Philosophy of Elijah Jordan (1875¿1953):.- The Case for Sociography:.

Time in Hegel¿s Phenomenology.- Hegel Revisited.- On Hegel¿s Theory of Alienation and its Historic Force.- Are There Infallible Explanations?.- Substance, Subject and Dialectic.- Hegel as Panentheist.- The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.

The year 1959 has been called The Centennial Year in view of the anniversary of the publication of The Origin of SPecies and the centenary of the births of many who later contributed much to the philosophy of the recent past, such as Samuel Alexander, Henri Bergson, John Dewey and Edmund Husser!' The essays in the present volume which are on subjects germane to any of the anniversaries celebrated this year have been placed first in the present volume. CENTENNIAL YEAR NUMBER DARWIN AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD JAMES K. FEIBLEMAN The knowledge of methodology, which is acquired by means of formal education in the various disciplines, is usually com­ municated in abstract form. Harmony and counterpoint in musical composition, the axiomatic method of mathematics, the established laws in physics or in chemistry, the principles of mathematics - all these are taught abstractly. It is only when we come to the method of discovery in experimental science that we find abstract communication failing. The most recent as well as the greatest successes of the experimental sciences have been those scored in modern times, but we know as yet of no abstract way to teach the scientific method. The astonishing pedagogical fact is that this method has never been abstracted and set forth in a fashion which would permit of its easy acquisition. Here is an astonishing oversight indeed, for which the very difficulty of the topic may itself be responsible.

With this issue we initiate the policy of expanding the scope of Tulane Studies in Philosophy to include, in addition to the work of members of the department, contributions from philosophers who have earned advanced degrees from Tulane and who are now teaching in other colleges and universities.