xi § 230.) This is a revision of a doctoral dissertation written at Duke University. Louct~ Claremont Graduate School The Coherence Theory o] Truth. It is not clear why anyone would pay the high price for this volume, all of which is hardly going to be of interest to any particular individual, and most of which consists of contributions containing ideas readily available in other forms. It is clear that the Festschri# idea has got out of hand. In sum: a string of papers, some good, many indifferent, on a variety of topics, some alive, some not, without the saving structure of a common theme. Hill's argument against the view that classical mechanics is a limiting case of quantum mechanics, and Yourgrau's dampening of an enthusiasm for a topological interpretation of elementary particle physics. Part III consists of papers about problems in physics, the most interesting of which seemed to me to be E. This section ends with a curiously discordant piece by Professor Veatch, claiming to show that Feigl's latest declarations about empiricism are quite compatible with the cosmological proof of God's existence, since all Feigl demands is a toehold in experience. Part II, on various problems in induction, empirical confirmation, and "method," includes many notables, Carnap and Popper among them, and much is heard of old positivist problems, including the crucial test, the verifiability principle, observational bases to knowledge, and so on. Except for Matson's lively, if inconclusive, dissolution of the problem, it is all pretty stale, including the attempts of psychologists Meehl and Stevens to scientize the problem and Bruce Aune's resurrection of epiphenomenalism without the credits. About half the contributions are devoted to the mind-body problem, offering various emendations to or criticisms of Feigl's neural identity theory. $9.75.) Another Festschri]t, this time to Feigl, drawing together philosophers from the logical empiricist and "analytical" camps (with a dissenter or two), a few psychologists, and one physicist. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966. AvRvm ST~LL University o] Cali]ornia, San Diego Mind, Matter and Method: Essays in Philosophy and Science in Honor o] Herbert Feigl. What I have attempted to suggest is that this is a bold, radical, sweeping, unorthodox, and destructive account of the Tractatus, an4 that as such it must take its place among the major commentaries on Wittgenstein's early philosophical development. Both of these tasks would require a much longer review than space allows. I have also made no effort here to evaluate the quality of his work, or the plausibility of his main thesis. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS 193 The foregoing account of Favrholdt's book does not bring out the wealth of detail it contains, nor does it adequately record the minuteness of the steps he takes when dealing with particular subjects in the Tractatus.
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