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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

Easton, Loyd D.
Miller, Dickinson S.

Paperback

Series: Philosophical Studies, Book 3

Philosophy

ISBN10: 9401017948
ISBN13: 9789401017947
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 6 2011
Pages: 343
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to analysis, the method of philosophy at work as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on analysis at work did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela- tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on the principles of practical intelligence, the application of intelligence in a morality of results for human welfare.

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