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Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896-1898, vol. II
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Title: Naturalism and Agnosticism: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896-1898, vol. II
Author: Sc.D. James Ward
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London
Published: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 294
Catalogs: Philosophy, Science, Essays
Description: Ex-library. Volume II only. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Contains bookplate, embossed stamp of American Congregational Library, Boston, on title page, withdrawn stamp on verso pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, and catalog number pasted to spine. Pages are deckled and gilded at the top. Interior pages in very good condition with just a few light pencil markings. This volume of collected lectures criticizes naturalism and agnosticism as a basis for understanding the world, opting for an integration of idealism within modern sciences at the turn of the 20th century. The lectures in volume II explore the theory of psychophysical parallelism, the conscious automaton theory, the ideas of Thomas Huxley, Descartes, and Kant, a refutation of dualism, the rise of dualism, the unity of the individual and universal experience, spiritualistic monism, nature as teleological, causality, and more. James Ward (1843-1925) was a professor of mental philosophy and logic at the University of Cambridge. Hardcover, good condition, 294 pages plus publisher's list, octavo.
Author: Sc.D. James Ward
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, London
Published: 1899
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 294
Catalogs: Philosophy, Science, Essays
Description: Ex-library. Volume II only. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Contains bookplate, embossed stamp of American Congregational Library, Boston, on title page, withdrawn stamp on verso pastedown, card pocket on rear pastedown, and catalog number pasted to spine. Pages are deckled and gilded at the top. Interior pages in very good condition with just a few light pencil markings. This volume of collected lectures criticizes naturalism and agnosticism as a basis for understanding the world, opting for an integration of idealism within modern sciences at the turn of the 20th century. The lectures in volume II explore the theory of psychophysical parallelism, the conscious automaton theory, the ideas of Thomas Huxley, Descartes, and Kant, a refutation of dualism, the rise of dualism, the unity of the individual and universal experience, spiritualistic monism, nature as teleological, causality, and more. James Ward (1843-1925) was a professor of mental philosophy and logic at the University of Cambridge. Hardcover, good condition, 294 pages plus publisher's list, octavo.
