Reason and Nature

<p>First published in 1931 this volume represents the culmination of twenty years' of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread craving for philosophical light at a time of scant such offerings Morris R. Cohen aimed to demonstrate here the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds - in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s. The volume bears particular relation to George Santayana's <i>Life of Reason </i>and Bertrand Russell's <i>Principles of Mathematics</i> and explores areas including the character of the insurgence against reason and reason in the contexts of the natural and social sciences.</p>