A WORLD OF CHANCE OR WHENCE, WHITHER, AND WHY BY EDWARD GLEASON SPAULDING MCCOSH PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ...

The critical work on Realism in the first part of the 20th Century. The development of a constructive realism upon the basis of modern logic and science, and through the criticism of opposed philosophical systems. Edward Gleason Spaulding was a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, and the President of the American Philosophical Association. He was a member of the "new realism" school of thought. His goal in this book is to "ascertain both what those postulates are from which each philosophical (...) system is logically derivable, and also, whether there is, finally, one body of principles that is common to all systems, and logically presupposed by them.." Contents include: The Problem of the Point of View, The Historical Problems of Philosophy, Methods and Problems of Method, Causation Philosophies, Substance Philosophies: Objective Idealism, and Realism: Function Philosophies. (shrink)

What am I?--The walls of the past.--Why men disagree.--What can I know?--What should I do?--What shall I believe?