Aside from the "Principia" and occasional appearances of the "Opticks," Newton's writings have remained largely inaccessible to students of philosophy, science, and literature as well as to other readers. This book provides a remedy with wide representation of the interests, problems, and diverse philosophic issues that preoccupied the greatest scientific mind of the seventeenth century.
Grouped in sections corresponding to methods, principles, and theological considerations, these selections feature cross-references to related essays. Starting with an examination of the methods of natural...

Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian Handlin discuss his philosophy within the historical context: The First World War slowly ground to its costly conclusion; and the immensely more difficult task of making peace got painfully under way. The armi-stice that some expected would permit a return to normalcy opened instead upon a period of turbulence that agitated fur-ther a society...

William James, remarking in 1909 on the differences among the three leading spokesmen for pragmatismhimself, F. C. S. Schiller, and John Deweysaid that Schiller s views were essentially psychological, his own, epistemological, whereas Dewey s panorama is the widest of the three. The two main subjects of Dewey s essays at this time are also two of the most fundamental and persistent philosophical questions: the nature of knowledge and the meaning of truth. Dewey s distinctive analysis is concentrated chiefly in seven essays, in a long, significant, and previously almost unknown work entitled...