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A Primer for Critics
by George Boas. 153 pgs.

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Preface.

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I. Necessary Distinctions.

Ii. Standards of Criticism: Instrumental Values.

Iii. Standards of Criticism: Terminal Values.

Iv. Schools of Criticism: Instrumental Values.

V. Schools of Criticism: Terminal Values.

Vi. the Authority of Criticism.

Conclusion.

Index.
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Dominant Themes of Modern Philosophy: A History
by George Boas. 658 pgs.

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About the Author:

Preface

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Chapter 1 the Rejection of Authority

Chapter 2 Italian Platonism

Chapter 3 the Sceptical Tradition in France

Chapter 4 Descartes and the Cartesians

Chapter 5 Anti-Cartesianism in France

Chapter 6 the Empirical Tradition in England

Chapter 7 the Idealist Tradition in England

Chapter 8 Leibniz and His Predecessors

Chapter 9 Les Philosophes

Chapter 10 Early Versions of the Philosophy of History

Chapter 11 Rousseau and Anti-Intellectualism

Chapter 12 Knowledge as a Complex of Sensations

Chapter 13 the Scottish School of Common Sense

Chapter 15 Kantian Ethics

Chapter 16 Voluntarism in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 17 Reason Disciplined

Chapter 18 Philosophies of History

Chapter 19 Three Philosophies of Action

Chapter 20 the Acceptance of Time

Chapter 21 the Rise of Existentialism

Index
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The Inquiring Mind
by George Boas. 428 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter I: Assumptions and Primary Inferences

Chapter II: The Problem of Perception

Appendix to Chapter II: "Some Meanings of the Word "Idea"

Chapter III: What is a Problem?

Chapter IV: Facts

Chapter V: Explanation -- by Cause and Effect

Chapter VI: Explanation -- by the Fulfillment Of Purposes

Chapter VII: Explanation -- by the Principle Of Perfection

Chapter VIII: Explanation -- by General Laws

Chapter IX: Explanation -- General Summary

Chapter X: Realms of Being

Appendix to Chapter X: Faith and Reason in Catholicism

Chapter XI: Differentiation

Chapter XII: Individuation

Chapter XIII: Experience

Chapter XIV: Order

Chapter XV: Conclusion

Supplementary Notes

Index
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Philosophy and Poetry
by George Boas. 42 pgs.

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Philosophy and Poetry
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Ideas in Cultural Perspective ("The Mona Lisa in History of Taste" by George Boas begins on p. 127)
by Philip P. Wiener, Aaron Noland. 759 pgs.

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I Methodology in the History of Ideas

Some Problems and Methods in the History of Ideas

Symposium on "Causation in History"

Concerning Recent Trends in the Theory of Historiography

Intellectual History and Its Neighbors

Ii History of Ideas in LIterature and Art

The Mona LIsa in History of Taste

The Modern System of the Arts

Rembrandt and His Contemporary Critics

Bach: the Conflict Between the Sacred and the Secular

Goethe and the History of Ideas

The Social Background of Taine's Philosophy of Art

Iii Social and Political Thought

The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion: A Chapter in the History of Modern Social Science

Political Philosophy and History

The Study of Chinese Civilization

The Genesis and Character of English Nationalism

The Influence of Eighteenth Century Ideas on the French Revolution

Individualism in Jean Jaurès' Socialist Thought

The Double Standard

Jane Addams on Human Nature

Iv Philosophical and Religious Thought

St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: the Background of the City of God

Christian Myth and Christian History

The Historical Background of Maritain's Humanism

The Idea of God in Elizabethan Medicine

"Preparation for Salvation" in Seventeenth Century New England

Lotze's Influence on the Pragmatism and Practical Philosophy of William James

Timelessness and Romanticism

James Marsh and American Philosophy

Existential Philosophy

Reflections on Religion and Modern Individualism

Index
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The Enjoyment of the Arts (Chap. XI "The Problem of Criticism" by George Boas)
by Max Schoen. 338 pgs.

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Foreword

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Illustrations

Chapter I Introduction the Realm of Art

Chapter II the Enjoyment of Painting

Chapter III the Why and Wherefore of Sculpture

Chapter IV Aesthetics in Architecture

Chapter V the Industrial Arts

Conclusion

Chapter VI Poetry

Chapter VII the Drama and Theatre

Chapter VIII Enjoying the Novel

Chapter IX the Movies

Chapter X Music

Chapter XI the Problem of Criticism

Index
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New Architecture and City Planning: A Symposium ("The City as a Work of Art" by George Boas begins on p. 353)
by Paul R. Zucker. 698 pgs.

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Acknowledgment

Contributors

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Introduction

I Specific Building Types

The Future of Industrial Architecture

Department Stores and Office Buildings of the Future

Private and Public Administration Buildings

The Private House

Classrooms and Living Rooms by Richard Neutra

Hospitals of the Future

Future Reformatory and Prison Design in the United States

Theaters and Places of Entertainment Some Speculative Notes on What Might Cause Their Change . . .

Future World's Fairs

Ocean Liners of the Future

Ii New Materials' and New Construction Methods

New Materials, New Construction Methods, New House Architecture

When Science Takes Over the Home

Standardization in the Building Industry and Its Influence on Future Architectural Development

Outline Summary of Prefabrication Methods

Future Possibilities in the Use of Structural Steels and Non-Ferrous Metals in Building Construction

Plywood in Future Architecture

Plastics in Future Building

Glass in Future Building Construction

Rubber, Linoleum and Cork as New Building Materials

New Possibilities of Electric Home Equipment

Iii Housing

The Future Organization of Planning in the Field of Housing as Related to City and Regional Planning

Economic Changes in Real Estate

Future Possibilities of Multiple Dwellings

Some Problems of the Low-Cost Home

Progressive Replacement of Low Cost Houses

War Housing Remainders--Postwar Slums

Principles of Slum Clearance

Inter-Racial Issues in Housing

The Planning of Rural Housing

Iv. City and Regional Planning

The Sociological Basis of Future City Planning

The City as A Work of Art

Civic Art

The Human Scale in City Planning

Highways, the Framework of the City and Regional Plan

Railroads and Future City and Regional Plans

The Architecture of Inland Waterways

Airports and Air Traffic and Their Influence on City and Regional Planning

The Influence of Public Utilities on City and Regional Planning

Public Health Planning

Compass and Possibilities of Regional Planning

Some Political and Administrative Aspects of Regional Planning*

Layout and Organization of Farms, Their Influence on Regional Planning

The Interdependence of Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning

The Future Development and Functions of Our National Parks

V the New Monumentality

The Need for A New Monumentality

Stylistic Trends in Contemporary Architecture

Monumentality

Monuments

Figurative Arts and Architecture: Mural and Architectural Sculpture

Vi Education

Citizen Interest and Participation in City and Regional Planning and Housing

Prewar Engineers, Architects, and Sociologists in A Postwar World

Education of the Future Architect

The Architectural Center an Organization to Coordinate Building Research, Planning, Design and Construction

The Museum of Tomorrow

Design Potentialities

The Educational Value of Manual Work and Handicraft in Relation to Architecture
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Philosophic Thought in France and the United States: Essays Representing Major Trends in Contemporary French and American Philosophy ("The History of Philosophy" by George Boas begins on p. 389)
by Marvin Farber. 778 pgs.

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Foreword

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Part I: Contemporary French Philosophy

French Philosophical Tradition Between The Two Wars

The Present Situation And the Present Future of French Philosophy

The Spirit of the History Of Philosophy And Of the Sciences In France

Phenomenology In France

Experience And Transcendence

La Philosophie De L'Esprit

The Three Stages Of Metaphysics

Existentialism in France Since the Liberation

Bersgonianism And Existentialism

Principal Publications On the Philosophy Of The Sciences Brought Out in France Since 1900*

Logic in France in The Twentieth Century

The Philosophy Of Values in France

Catholic Philosophy In France

The Situation Of Religious Philosophy In France

Recent Esthetic Thought in France

Knowledge and Social Criticism

Selected Bibliography

The Philosophy Of History

The Philosophy Of Education in France

An American Reaction To the Present Situation In French Philosophy

Part II: Contemporary American Philosophy

Philosophy in America Between Two Wars

The History Of Philosophy

Idealism in America

Descriptive Philosophy And the Nature Of Human Existence

The Given And Perceptual Knowledge

Critical Realism And Modern Materialism

The Place Of John Dewey in Modern Thought

Philosophy of Science In America

Probability, Induction, And the Provident Man

Attribute and Class

Basic Issues in Logical Positivism

Some Trends In American Naturalistic Ethics

Material Possessions And Thomistic Ethics

Philosophy of Religion In the United States In the Twentieth Century

Present Tendencies In American Esthetics

The Main Trend Of Social Philosophy In America

Toward an Analytic Philosophy Of History

The Philosophy Of American Education

Reflections of A French Philosopher On The Preceding American Essays

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