Formal, Transcendental, and Dialectical Thinking: Logic and Reality (SUNY Series in Philosophy) 0887064299, 9780887064296
This is a critical examination of the three types of logic advocated by current philosophical schools. Harris shows that
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English Pages 289 [303] Year 1987
Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Publication Data
Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. Is Logic "Relevant"?
II. The Predicament of Modern Man
III. Science as Objective Knowledge
IV. The Bankruptcy of "the Scientific Outlook"
V. The Whirligig of Time
Notes
Part I: Formal Logic
Chapter 1: The Presuppositions of Formal Logic
I. Logic and Metaphysics
II. Frege and Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik
III. The Thesis of this Chapter
IV. Commutation, Association, and Distribution
V. Implication
Notes
Chapter 2: Formal Logic and Scientific Method
I. Empiricism and Induction
II. The Wide Interrelatedness of Things
III. The Methodology of Science
IV. Perception
Notes
Part II: Transcendental Logic
Chapter 3: Kant and Fichte
I. Synthesis and Transcendental Subjectivity
II. Coherence
III. The Emergence of Dialectic
Notes
Chapter 4: Husserl's Transcendental Logic
I. Psychologism vs. Formalism
II. Inadequacies of Formal Logic
III. The Task of Transcendental Logic
IV. Undeveloped Implications
Notes
Chapter 5: Dialectical Transcendentalism
I. A Reformulation of Transcendental Philosophy
II. Dialectical Parallel
Notes
Chapter 6: Transcendental Idealism
I. The Problem of Self-Constitution
II. Merits and Demerits of Transcendentalism
Notes
Chapter 7: "Independent" and "Non-independent" Objects
I. Wholes and Parts
II. Unresolved Problems
Notes
Part III: Dialectic
Chapter 8: The Logic of System
I. Relations, External and Internal
II. Continua and the Overlap of Terms
III. Organization and System
IV. The Self-Differentiation of System
V. Summary and Exemplification
Notes
Chapter 9: Negation and the Laws of Thought
I. Identity and Difference
II. Dialectic and the Law of Contradiction
III. Criticisms and Misconceptions
Notes
Chapter 10: Categories of Perception
I. The Form of the Facts
II. Being and Becoming
III. Quantity, Number and Formal Logic
Notes
Chapter 11: Categories of Reflection
I. Common Sense
II. Common Sense and Newtonian Science
III. Contemporary Science
Notes
Chapter 12: Categories of Systematic Thinking
I. The Concept, Theoretical and Objective
II. Conceptual Moments
III. Scientific Judgement
IV. Scientific Inference
V. Scientific Advance
Notes
Chapter 13: Objectivity
I. Three World Views
II. Subjective and Objective
III. Theory and Practice
IV. Identity of Subjectivity and Objectivity
Notes
Chapter 14: Value
I. Dialectical Generation of Value
II. Desire, Purpose, and Objective Standards
III. Dialectic and World Problems
IV. Mankind and Nature
V. Residual Questions
(1) The freedom and individuality of man
(2) The ultimate character of the universal whole
(3) Man's relation to universal nature
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
