ABSTRACT

This is Volume VII in a series of seventeen on Metaphysics. Originally published in 1965, 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.

part |19 pages

Introduction

chapter I|18 pages

Scientific Philosophy

part I|125 pages

The Physical World

chapter II|4 pages

The Physical World

chapter III|23 pages

Relativity

chapter IV|21 pages

The Primordial Matrix

chapter V|24 pages

The Expanding Universe

chapter VI|33 pages

Matter and Energy

chapter VII|19 pages

Wholeness and Hierarchy

part II|123 pages

The Realm of Life

chapter VIII|22 pages

The Riddle of Life

chapter X|18 pages

Organic Activity

chapter XI|9 pages

Homeostasis And Relevant Variation

chapter XII|33 pages

Evolution

chapter XIII|20 pages

Mechanism and Teleology

chapter XIV|6 pages

The Philosophy of Process and Organism

part III|163 pages

Mentality

chapter XV|23 pages

Body and Mind

chapter XVI|19 pages

Feeling

chapter XVII|14 pages

Consciousness

chapter XVIII|24 pages

Behaviour

chapter XIX|21 pages

Perception—I Physiological Theories

chapter XX|37 pages

Perception — II Psychological Theories

chapter XXI|24 pages

Intelligence

part IV|45 pages

Outline of a Metaphysic

chapter XXII|18 pages

Relatedness and System

chapter XXIII|14 pages

Space, Time and Causality

chapter XXIV|12 pages

Mind and Knowledge