Professor Royce's Refutation of Realism

Montague, Wm. Pepperell

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“…Something similar happened in the United States. Two recent graduates from "the other Cambridge"-W. P. Montague and R. B. Perry-objected to the views of Josiah Royce, America's best-known idealist (Montague 1902;Perry 1902). Inspired by Russell's work, they argued for a more scientific approach to philosophy.…”

Section: American Philosophy At the Turn Of The Centurymentioning

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The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Verhaegh

2023

Philos. sci.

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Historians have shown that philosophical discussions about the implications of relativity significantly shaped the development of European philosophy of science in the 1920s. Yet little is known about American debates from this period. This paper maps the first responses to Einstein’s theory in three U.S. philosophy journals and situates these papers within the local intellectual landscape. We argue that these discussions (1) stimulated the development of a distinctly American branch of philosophy of science and (2) paved the way for the logical empiricists, who emigrated to the United States in the years before World War II.

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Section: American Philosophy At the Turn Of The Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Verhaegh

2023

Philos. sci.

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Russell and American Realism

Neuber

2023

Topoi

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American philosophical realism developed in two forms: “new” and “critical” realism. While the new realists sought to ‘emancipate’ ontology from epistemology and defended a direct theory of perception, the critical realists promoted a representationalist account of perception and thus argued for an epistemological dualism. Bertrand Russell’s early philosophical writings figured prominently in both of these American realist camps. However, while the new realists quite enthusiastically embraced the Russellian analytic style of reasoning (and Russell himself appreciated the American new realists as anti-idealist allies), the critical realists were significantly more reserved toward Russell’s point of view. In the present paper, I identify the reasons for this difference in reception. In particular, I will show that the critical realists’ reservations pertained primarily to a more traditionalist—‘continental’—account of philosophy, whereas the neo-realists proved instrumental in setting the stage for later full-blown analytic philosophy in the United States.

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How the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part I

Chatzigeorgiou

2020

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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Professor Royce's Refutation of Realism

Cited by 11 publications

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The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

The Reception of Relativity in American Philosophy

Russell and American Realism

How the Mind-World Problem Shaped the History of Science: A Historiographical Analysis of Edwin Arthur Burtt's The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Part I

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