ABSTRACT

This is Volume II in a series of seventeen on Metaphysics. Originally published in 1962, The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Political Philosophy and Theology.

chapter I|25 pages

The Revolt Against Reason

chapter II|43 pages

The Idea of Reason in Western Thought

chapter III|34 pages

The Rise of Positivism

chapter IV|62 pages

Logical Atomism

chapter V|60 pages

The Theory of Meaning

chapter VI|59 pages

Analysis and a Priori Knowledge

chapter VII|31 pages

Linguistic Philosophy—Some Earlier Forms

chapter VIII|43 pages

Linguistic Philosophy—Some Later Forms

chapter IX|40 pages

Universals

chapter X|22 pages

Necessities in Nature

chapter XI|28 pages

Necessity in Causation

chapter XII|22 pages

Some Intimations of Cosmic Necessity