03455cam a2200301 i 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310400079000720500010001511000056001612450068002172640054002852640011003393000042003503360021003923370025004133380023004385000089004615050888005505200872014385450622023106500023029329000012029559420017029679990019029849520150030031556096OCoLC20230608123923.0750818t1961    cau    g      000 0 eng c  aIQUbengcIQUdOCLdAU@dYUSdOCLCQdGZUdOCLCFdOCLCOdUtOrBLWdUIAMerda04aBD1111 aPepper, Stephen Coburn,d1891-1972,eauthor957501310aWorld hypotheses :ba study in evidence /cby Stephen C. Pepper 1aBerkeley :bUniversity of California Press,c1961 4c©1942  axiii, 348 pages :bdiagrams ;c20 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aOn cover: prolegomena to systematic philosophy and a complete survey of metaphysics.0 aThe Utter Skeptic -- Dogmatists -- Evidence and Corroboration -- Hypotheses -- Eclecticism Is Confusing -- Concepts Which Have Lost Contact -- A General View of the Hypotheses -- Formism -- Amalgamation of the Immanent and the Tran scendent Categories of Formism -- Concrete Existence -- Truth in Formism -- The Transition to Mechanism -- Mechanism -- The Mechanistic Root Metaphor -- The Mechanistic Categories -- Discrete Mechanism -- Consolidated Mechanism -- Secondary Categories -- Mechanistic Theory of Truth -- Contextualism -- Derivation of the Contextualistic Categories -- Quality -- Strands and context of texture -- References of Strands -- Individual Textures -- Operational Theory of Truth -- Organicism -- An Illustration -- Application of the Categories -- Time and truth -- Summary, criticisms and answers --  Review and conclusions -- The Criticisms -- The Answers.  aIn setting forth his root-metaphor theory and examining six such hypotheses-animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism-Pepper surveys the whole field of metaphysics. Because this book is an analytical study, it stresses issues rather than men. It seeks to exhibit the sources of these issues and to show that some are unnecessary; that the rest gather into clusters and are interconnected in systems corresponding closely to the traditional schools of philosophy. The virtue of the root-metaphor method is that it puts metaphysics on a purely factual basis and pushes philosophical issues back to the interpretation of evidence.  This book was written primarily as a contribution to the field, but its plan excellently suits it for use as a text in courses in metaphysics, types of philosophical theory, or present tendencies in philosophy.  aStephen Coburn Pepper, born in Newark, New Jersey on April 29, 1891, died May 1, 1972 in Berkeley, California, was a noted American philosopher who received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1916 and taught throughout nmost of his career at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books and had over a hundred articles published. He is best known for his root metaphor theory of metaphysics, detailed in his 1942 book World Hypohteses, but was also a respected authority on aesthetics and the philosophy of art, as well as on value theory and ethics. 0aMetaphysics917885  abib-skh  2lcccBOOKREF  c515243d546660  00102lcc40708SYEDALWIaIIUMbIIUMcSPECIALSHd2023-04-27eMGIFTossa BD 111 P424W 1961p11100476610r2023-06-20 00:00:00w2023-04-27yBOOKREF