(1) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2) Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense

Abstract

(1) OF the twelve papers and symposia collected in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the last session, four are direct criticisms of positions taken up by Mr. Bertrand Russell. In the inaugural address on “ Science and Philosophy,” Dr. Bosanquet criticises the view, maintained in Mr. Russell's recent Lowell Lectures, that philosophy, as the science which aims at stating all that can be known A priori about all possible worlds, should be ethically neutral, and that it is just because philosophy in the past has been biased by the desire for agreeable conclusions that philosophy has not made the same progress as the physical sciences. Dr. Bosanquet holds that this view implies an antecedent limitation of philosophy, and involves “the confusion that because the interest of philosophy is purely theoretical, therefore its subject-matter is itself theory and its objects.

(1) Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

New series, vol. xv., containing the papers read before the Society during the Thirty-sixth Session, 1914â“1915. Pp. 441. (London: Williams, and Norgate, 1915.) Price 10s. 6d. net.

(2) Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense.

Edited by G. A. Johnston. Pp. vii + 267. (Chicago and London: The Open Court Co., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d. net.