Philosophic Thought in France and the United States: Essays Representing Major Trends in Contemporary French and American Philosophy

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Foreword vii
• Contents ix
• Part I - Contemporary French Philosophy 1
• French Philosophical Tradition Between The Two Wars 3
• The Present Situation And the Present Future of French Philosophy 35
• The Spirit of the History Of Philosophy And Of the Sciences In France 55
• Phenomenology In France 67
• Experience And Transcendence 87
• La Philosophie De L'Esprit 103
• The Three Stages Of Metaphysics 121
• Existentialism in France Since the Liberation 137
• Bersgonianism And Existentialism 151
• Principal Publications On the Philosophy Of The Sciences Brought Out in France Since 1900 169
• Logic in France in The Twentieth Century 181
• The Philosophy Of Values in France 203
• Catholic Philosophy In France 219
• The Situation Of Religious Philosophy In France 249
• Recent Esthetic Thought in France 267
• Knowledge and Social Criticism 281
• Selected Bibliography 300
• The Philosophy Of History 301
• The Philosophy Of Education in France 321
• An American Reaction To the Present Situation In French Philosophy 337
• Part II - Contemporary American Philosophy 363
• Philosophy in America Between Two Wars 365
• The History Of Philosophy 389
• Idealism in America 405
• Descriptive Philosophy And the Nature Of Human Existence 419
• The Given And Perceptual Knowledge 443
• Critical Realism And Modern Materialism 463
• The Place Of John Dewey in Modern Thought 483
• Philosophy of Science In America 505
• Probability, Induction, And the Provident Man 525
• Attribute and Class 545
• Basic Issues in Logical Positivism 565
• Some Trends In American Naturalistic Ethics 589
• Material Possessions And Thomistic Ethics 613
• Philosophy of Religion In the United States In the Twentieth Century 629
• Present Tendencies In American Esthetics 655
• The Main Trend Of Social Philosophy In America 679
• Toward an Analytic Philosophy Of History 705
• The Philosophy Of American Education 727
• Reflections of A French Philosopher On The Preceding American Essays 745
• Index 765

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