Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. I. Methodology and Science
5. On The Criteria and Limits of Meaning 3
6. Postulates of Empirical Thought 24
7. The Development of The Experimental Method 31
8. Towards a General Logic of Propositions 46
9. Two Applications of Logic to Biology 69
10. Biological Phenomena Which a Definition of Life Must Include 86
11. The Principle of Associative Learning 100
12. The Concept of Volition in Experimental Psychology 115
13. The Experience Theory of the Social Attitudes 138
14. II. Ethics and Religion
15. Toward an Experimental Definition of Criminal Mind 163
16. Reflections on Contemporary Science and Ethics 191
17. The Cultural Function of Religion 203
18. III. Aesthetics
19. Esthetic of Music and the Rational Ideal 223
20. Shaper, Thinker and Visionary 238
21. Ateleological Theories of Aesthetic 258
22. The Expression of Meanings and Emotions in Music 279
23. IV. History
24. ΦΑΝΤΑΣΙΑ in Plotinus 297
25. Kant and Thomas Aquinas on the Proofs for the Existence of God 310
26. The Categories of Aristotle 317
27. Newton's Natural Philosophy: Its Problems and Consequences 335
28. David Hume's Contribution to Social Science 358
29. Bibliography of The Writings of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. 373