Lectures and Essays

Klappentext Essays by mathematician William Clifford, bridging the pure and social sciences in the wake of Darwinism, published posthumously in 1879. Zusammenfassung Remembered for a mind 'most difficult to describe in its powers, its strangeness, its uniqueness', William Clifford (1845–79) integrated mathematics, ethics and evolution in this two-volume work of 1879, a posthumous collection of public addresses and writings edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lectures and Essays continued: 8. Instruments used in measurement; 9. Body and mind; 10. On the nature of things-in-themselves; 11. On the types of compound statement involving four classes; 12. On the scientific basis of morals; 13. Right and wrong: the scientific ground of their distinction; 14. The ethics of belief; 15. The ethics of religion; 16. The influence upon morality of a decline in religious belief; Cosmic emotion; Virchow on the teaching of science.

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• Authors: William Kingdon Clifford
• Assisted by: Frederick Pollock (Editor), Leslie Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108040952
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04095-2
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy; Lectures and Essays 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought