A brief, systematic exposition of the positions of seven classical thinkers on the subject of the logical and/or methodological unity of human knowledge. McRae writes methodically and accurately on a difficult subject.--R. G. M.

Representative selections from nine of the Scottish philosophers from Francis Hutcheson to James McCosh. Complete bibliographies and some biographical data are included in an introductory essay on the thought of each man, most of which are from Noah Porter's Philosophy in Great Britain and America.--R. G. M.

Wallraff's thesis is that the descriptive results of phenomenological studies undertaken by psychologists studying perception should be of interest to the philosopher. They offer a decisive criticism of the theory of the sensory given as the completely accessible, determinate, and incorrigible foundation of empirical knowledge. Research has now revealed that "the only phenomena that we actually find--the sense qualia permeated with meanings which are constantly present to us--these are already infected with the fallibility of judgment." Wallraff would have us take (...) perception as thus described as the paradigm of cognition--all cognition being incurably dependent upon conscious or unconscious frames of reference or interpretative schemes, among which are to be found the schemes of the metaphysician. --R. G. M. (shrink)

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