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THIS is one of those co-operative books which are becoming a feature of publishing enterprise. It has, however, some quite exceptional marks. The nine authors, members of the staff of the Department of Philosophy in Columbia University, are named on the title-page, but their individual contributions are not specified in the text. We are told in the preface that they sought advice and received aid from their colleagues in other departments. The book therefore has, and is intended to present to the student, a unity due to team work. It is offered as a first course in philosophy or as an introduction to science. Each chapter is divided into sections and followed by a list of questions and exercises and an extensive bibliography. The impression it leaves on us is that the interest of the matter is spoilt by the form, and the matter apart from the form is elementary to the point of insipidity.
An Introduction to Reflective Thinking.
By Columbia Associates in Philosophy: Laurence Buermeyer William Forbes Cooley John J. Coss Horace L. Friess James Gutmann Thomas Munro Houston Peterson John H. Randall Jr. Herbert W. Schneider. Pp, vii + 351. (London: Constable & Co., Ltd., n.d.) 10s. 6d. net.
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An Introduction to Reflective Thinking. Nature 114, 785 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114785b0
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