Foundations of Historical Knowledge

WHITE, Morton

Harper

An anthology of American Philosophy.

Documents in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edward to John Dewey

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Documents in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (Galaxy Books)

Science and sentiment in America;: Philosophical thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (A Galaxy book 391)

Oxford University Press

What Is and What Ought To Be Done: An Essay on Ethics and Epistemology

Religion & Spirituality

Here, Morton White presents the first synoptic view of the major philosophical ideas in The Federalist. Using the tools of philosophy and intellectual history, White extracts and examines the interlocking theory of knowledge, doctrine of normative ethics, psychology of motivation, and even metaphysics and theology, all of which were used in different degrees by the founding fathers in defense of the Constitution.

Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A Philosopher’s Story is the autobiography of a prominent philosopher whose interactions with other leading thinkers and experiences at major institutions of higher learning over a period of time of more than fifty years make this an informative introduction to the intellectual life of late twentieth century America. During his academic career, Morton White has been involved in a number of controversies that have raised profound issues. One concerned the role of religion at Harvard in the 1950s; another was precipitated by the student rebellion at Harvard in the 1960s; and a third surrounded the question of academic governance at the Institute of Advanced Study during the 1970s. Throughout his academic career he has been an intellectual bridge-builder who has tried to avoid the pitfalls off wooliness and obscurity while uniting his widely spread interests. This is a professor’s story with many distinguishing features. Like other examples of the author’s writing, it reflects many different aspects of American thought and society during the twentieth century.

A Philosopher’s Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penn State University Press

Although a great many memoirs are being published these days, this autobiography by Morton White has special significance because professional philosophers seldom write their memoirs and, when they do, they rarely produce books as engaging as this one. As historian of ideas and a philosopher, White is able to situate his life in the deeper and broader intellectual currents of his time, and therefore the story of his experiences at Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study is a brilliantly conceived contribution to the history of American philosophy in the twentieth century. Readers concerned with the development of higher education will be fascinated by White's description of the struggles over religion at Harvard in the 1950s, while historians of urban life will be much interested in his vivid account of his boyhood on the Lower East Side of New York. And students of pragmatism will learn much about the twentieth-century attack on the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements from a letter written to White by the Polish logician Alfred Tarski, and from the three-way correspondence of Nelson Goodman, W. V. Quine, and White reproduced in an appendix. The author's discussion of his contact with such influential thinkers as John Dewey, G. E. Moore, and Isaiah Berlin, and especially his extensive correspondence with Berlin, will further enhance the book's appeal to a broad audience. Indeed, White's autobiography should attract more attention among the educated public than any book written by an American philosopher in many years.--Peter H. Hare, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy and Editor, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy.

Documents the apprehensive and hostile attitudes of intellectuals toward the city throughout most of America's history

The Intellectual versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright

White, Lucia

Sociology

Harvard University Press

The author examines three fundamental concepts: existence, a priori knowledge, and value. These concepts have been recurrent concerns of western philosophy and also reveal important similarities and differences between the movements from which the author takes his departure.

Toward Reunion in Philosophy

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Foundations of Historical Knowledge

Documents in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edward to John Dewey

Documents in the History of American Philosophy: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey

Science and sentiment in America;: Philosophical thought from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (A Galaxy book 391)

What Is and What Ought To Be Done: An Essay on Ethics and Epistemology

Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution

A Philosopher’s Story

A Philosopher’s Story

The Intellectual versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright

Toward Reunion in Philosophy