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Selected Writings of Richard McKeon
Volume 1: Philosophy, Science, and Culture
Edited by Zahava K. McKeon and William G. Swenson
With an Introduction by Zahava K. McKeon
© 1998 The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Foreward, by William G. Swenson ix
McK-SelectedWritingsV1_Foreword.pdf 1.3 MB
Acknowledgments xiii
General Introduction, by Zahava K. McKeon 1
McK-SelectedWritingsV1_GenIntro.pdf 6.2 MB
1 Philosophy as a Humanism 23
2 A Philosopher Meditates on Discovery 41
McK-PhilosopherMeditates.pdf 6.8 MB
3 Scientific and Philosophic Revolutions 61
4 Process and Function 82
5 Philosophy and Theology, History and Science in the Thought of Bonaventura and Thomas Aquinas 112
6 Rhetoric and Poetic in the Philosophy of Aristotle 137
McK-Rhetoric&PoeticInPhilOfAristotle.pdf 8.7 MB
7 Philosophy and the Development of Scientific Methods 165
8 Philosophy and Method 183
9 Philosophic Semantics and Philosophic Inquiry 209
McK-PhilosophicSemantics&Inquiry.pdf 6.1 MB
10 Experience and Metaphysics 222
11 The Flight from Certainty and the Quest for Precision 229
12 Being, Existence, and That Which Is 244
13 Aristotle's Conception of the Development of the Nature of Scientific Method 256
14 Aristotle and the Origins of Science in the West 290
15 The Hellenistic and Roman Foundations of the Tradition of Aristotle in the West 304
McK-Hellenistic&RomanFdnsOfAristotleInWest.pdf 2.4 MB
16 Democracy, Scientific Method, and Action 335
17 Communication, Truth, and Society 394
McK-CommunicationTruth&Society.pdf 292 KB
18 Philosophy and Action 406
19 Fact and Value in the Philosophy of Culture 429
20 Facts, Values, and Actions 436
21 Philosophy and History in the Development of Human Rights 447
22 Philosophy as in Agent of Civilization 468
McK-PhilosophyAsAnAgentOfCivilization.pdf 1.1 MB
Name and Title Index 483
Subject Index 491
