Reason and Analysis

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. ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THE REVOLT AGAINST REASON CHAPTER II THE IDEA OF REASON IN WESTERN THOUGHT CHAPTER III THE RISE OF POSITIVISM CHAPTER IV LOGICAL ATOMISM CHAPTER V THE THEORY OF MEANING CHAPTER VI ANALYSIS AND A PRIORI KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER VII LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY-SOME EARLIER FORMS CHAPTER VIII LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY-SOME LATER FORMS CHAPTER IX UNIVERSALS CHAPTER X NECESSITIES IN NATURE CHAPTER XI NECESSITY IN CAUSATION CHAPTER XII SOME INTIMATIONS OF COSMIC NECESSITY