Essays In Natural History And Agricultur
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Nature and Historical Experience: Essays in Naturalism and in the Theory of History
β Scribed by John Herman Randall
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 320
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β¦ Synopsis
A collection of essays on the theory of history and the theory of nature. Topics include the genetic method and historical determinism, historical decision, the nature of metaphysics, empirical pluralism and unification of nature, ways of construing mind and intelligibility, and others.
β¦ Table of Contents
Foreword
Contents
Prologue
Part I. Toward, the Theory of History
1. The Theory of History
2. On the Understanding of Histories
3. History as an Instrument of Understanding: The Genetic Method and Historical Determinism
4. History as an Instrument of Understanding: Historical Decision
Part II. Toward the Theory of Nature
5. The Nature of Metaphysics: Its Function, Criteria, and Method
6. Substance as a Cooperation of Processes: A Metaphysical Analysis
7. Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature
8. Ways of Construing Mind and Intelligibility
9. An Empirical and Naturalistic Theory of Signs, Signification, Universals, and Symbols
10. Qualities, Qualification, and the Aesthetic Transaction
Epilogue. Unifications of Knowledge: What Is the World to Be Unified?
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