Chapter V — , THE PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM OF SCIENCE.[434:A]

PLATO: Republic, Book VII, 526 ff. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan. Phaedo, 96 ff. Translation by Jowett.

BERKELEY: Alciphron, the Fourth Dialogue. Siris, especially 234-264. (On the failure of the scientist to grasp the deeper truth respecting causes and substances.)

DESCARTES: Discourse on Method. Translation by Veitch.

SPINOZA: On the Improvement of the Understanding. Translation by Elwes.

KANT: Critique of Pure Reason--Transcendental Æsthetic and Transcendental Analytic. Translation by Max Müller. (Studies of the Method of Science.)

WARD, JAMES: Naturalism and Agnosticism. (Full but clear account of recent development of natural science, and criticism of its use as philosophy.)

MACH, ERNST: Science of Mechanics. (Historical and methodological.)

JAMES, WILLIAM: Principles of Psychology, Vol. II, Chap. xxviii. (Emphasizes the practical interest underlying science.)

ROYCE, JOSIAH: The World and the Individual, Second Series, Man and Nature. (Interpretation of the province of natural science from the stand-point of absolute idealism.)

PEARSON, KARL: The Grammar of Science. (The limits of science from the scientific stand-point.)

CLIFFORD, W. K.: Lectures and Essays: On the Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought; The Philosophy of the Pure Sciences; On the Ethics of Belief.

HUXLEY, T. H.: Method and Results. (The positivistic position.)

MUENSTERBERG, HUGO: Psychology and Life. (Epistemological limitations of natural science applied to psychology, from idealistic stand-point.)

FULLERTON, G. E.: A System of Metaphysics, Part II.

TAYLOR, A. E.: Elements of Metaphysics, Book III.

CHAPTERS VI AND VII, THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY.

PLATO: Dialogues, especially Protagoras and Theaetetus. Translation by Jowett. (The actual genesis of special problems.)

KUELPE, OSWALD: Introduction to Philosophy. Translation by Pillsbury and Titchener. (Full and accurate account of the traditional terms and doctrines of philosophy.)

HIBBEN, J. G.: Problems of Philosophy. (Brief and elementary.)

SIDGWICK, HENRY: Philosophy, its Scope and Relations.

PAULSEN, FRIEDRICH: Introduction to Philosophy. Translation by Thilly.

BALDWIN, J. M.: Dictionary of Philosophy. (Full, and convenient for reference.)

FERRIER, J. F.: Lectures on Greek Philosophy. (Interpretation of the beginning and early development of philosophy.)

BURNET, J.: Early Greek Philosophy. Translation of the sources.

FAIRBANKS, A.: The First Philosophers of Greece.

GOMPERZ, TH.: Greek Thinkers, Vol. I. Translation by Magnus. (On the first development of philosophical problems.)

PALMER, G. H.: The Field of Ethics. (On the relations of the ethical problem.)

PUFFER, ETHEL: The Psychology of Beauty. (On the relations of the æsthetical problem.)