Presidential Addresses Of The American Philosophical Association, 1921-1930

by Hull, Richard T.

• ISBN13: 9781591022220
• ISBN10: 1591022223
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

The American Philosophical Association (APA) was founded in 1900 to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline. Having grown from a few hundred members to over 10,000, the American Philosophical Association is one of the largest philosophical societies in the world and the only American philosophical society not devoted to a particular school or philosophical approach. In 1999, in anticipation of its centennial, the APA authorised philosopher Richard T Hull to begin collecting and publishing the presidential addresses delivered over the course of the twentieth century. The first six volumes, covering the years 1901 to 1960, have now been published and are available exclusively from Prometheus Books. Besides the presidential addresses, each volume contains biographies and photographs of the APA presidents, a list of their birthplaces, a chronology of the APA, a list of presidents per decade, a list of universities and colleges closely associated with each president, and name and subject indices. A total of eleven volumes are planned to complete the collection.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Editorial Foreword	xi
Chronology of The American Philosophical Association	xiii
Presidents 1920--1930	xv
Chart of Departments	xvii
Birthplaces of Presidents	xxv
Acknowledgements	xxvii
1920--1921
Biography	1	(32)
Ralph Barton Perry
The Appeal to Reason	5	(28)
Biography	33	(18)
Edgar Lenderson Hinman
Modern Idealism and the Logos Teaching	35	(16)
1921--1922
Biography	51	(26)
Wilmon Henry Sheldon
The Soul and Matter	53	(24)
Biography	77	(18)
Edward Scribner Ames
Religious Values and the Practical Absolute	81	(14)
1922--1923
Biography	95	(24)
Edward Leroy Schaub
Spirit Militant and Spirit Harmonious	97	(22)
Biography	119	(24)
Walter Goodnow Everett
The Problem of Progress	121	(22)
1923--1924
Biography	143	(26)
William Pepperell Montague
The Einstein Theory and a Possible Alternative	147	(22)
Biography	169	(26)
Roy Wood Sellars
The Emergence of Naturalism	173	(22)
1924--1925
Biography	195	(20)
Harold Chapman Brown
The Material World---Snark or Boojum?	197	(18)
Biography	215	(20)
Alexander Meiklejohn
Philosophers and Others	219	(16)
Biography	235	(14)
Edmund Howard Hollands
Nature and Spirit	237	(12)
1925--1926
Biography	249	(16)
George Rebec
Back to the Antinomies	253	(12)
Biography	265	(28)
Wilbur Marshall Urban
Progress in Philosophy in the Last Quarter Century	269	(24)
Biography	293	(16)
Guy Allan Tawney
Religion and Experimentation	295	(14)
1926--1927
Biography	309	(18)
William Ernest Hocking
Mind and Near-Mind	315	(12)
Biography	327	(20)
Henry Waldgrave Stuart
Some Reflections on Naturalism	329	(18)
Biography	347	(32)
Rupert Clendon Lodge
The Platonic Highest Good	349	(30)
1927--1928
Biography	379	(38)
George Plimpton Adams
Immediacy and Meaning	381	(18)
What Does Philosophy Say?	399	(18)
William Ernest Hocking
Biography	417	(26)
David Ferdinand Swenson
Objective Uncertainty and Human Faith	421	(22)
1928--1929
Biography	443	(20)
Herbert Wildon Carr
Real and Ideal Relations	445	(18)
Biography	463	(20)
Felix Adler
The Ethical Problem	467	(16)
Biography	483	(38)
DeWitt Henry Parker
On the Notion of Value	485	(18)
1929--1930
Drama As a Cosmic Category	503	(18)
Hartley Burr Alexander
Biography	521	(24)
Morris Raphael Cohen
Vision and Technique in Philosophy	525	(20)
Biography	545	(20)
Max Carl Otto
Meditation on a Hill	547	(18)
Name Index	565	(8)
Subject Index	573