Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association

by Hull, Richard T.

• ISBN13: 9781591022251
• ISBN10: 1591022258
• 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 1941-1950	xv
Chart of Departments	xvii
Birthplaces of Presidents	xxix
Acknowledgments	xxxi
1940-1941:
CHARLES WILLIAM HENDEL
Biography	1	(24)
Reflections on the Spirit of Man	3	(22)
BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD FULLER
Biography	25	(32)
Pot Shots at Present Pedagogy	27	(30)
RADOSLAV ANDREA TSANOFF
Biography	57	(22)
Conviction and Tolerance	61	(18)
1941-1942:
GRACE MEAD ANDRUS DE LAGUNA
Biography	79	(26)
Cultural Relativism and Science	83	(22)
EPHRAIM EDWARD ERICKSEN
Biography	105	(20)
Materialism in Democracy-Democracy in Culture	109	(16)
ELIJAH JORDAN
Biography	125	(20)
Concerning Philosophy	129	(16)
1942-1943:
DONALD SAGE MACAY
Biography	145	(26)
The Illusion of Memory	149	(22)
1942-1944:
BRAND BLANSHARD
Biography	171	(26)
Current Strictures on Reason	175	(22)
1944-1945:
VICTOR FRITZ LENZEN
Biography	197	(24)
The Concept of Reality in Physical Theory	201	(20)
1945-1946:
WILLIAM RAY DENNES
Biography	221	(32)
Conflict	225	(28)
WILLIAM KELLEY WRIGHT
Biography	253	(22)
The End of the Day	255	(20)
DANIEL SOMMER ROBINSON
Biography	275	(24)
A Philosophy for the Atomic Age	277	(22)
GEORGE PERRIGO CONGER
Biography	299	(20)
Method and Content in Philosophy	301	(18)
1946-1947:
KATHERINE EVERETT GILBERT
Biography	319	(28)
Recent Poets on Man and His Place	321	(26)
EVERETT JOHN NELSON
Biography	347	(20)
A Defense of Substance	349	(18)
MARTEN TEN HOOR
Biography	367	(22)
The Role of the Philosopher	371	(18)
1947-1948:
CORNELIUS KRUSÉ
Biography	389	(22)
What Contribution Can Philosophy Make to World Understanding?	391	(20)
HANS REICHENBACH
Biography	411	(22)
Rationalism and Empiricism: An Inquiry into the Roots of Philosophical Error	417	(16)
ABRAM CORNELIUS BENJAMIN
Biography	433	(18)
Philosophy, the Cult of Unintelligibility	435	(16)
1948-1949:
HERBERT WALLACE SCHNEIDER
Biography	451	(16)
Metaphysical Vision	455	(12)
DONALD AYRES PIATT
Biography	467	(18)
Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Human Bondage	469	(16)
CHARLES HARTSHORNE
Biography	485	(22)
Chance, Love, and Incompatibility	487	(20)
1949-1950:
PAUL MARHENKE
Biography	507	(24)
The Criterion of Significance	511	(20)
WALTER TERENCE STACE
Biography	531	(28)
Naturalism and Religion	535	(24)
ALBERT EDWIN AVEY
Biography	559	(22)
Truth and Falsehood, Mostly Falsehood	561	(20)
NAME INDEX	581	(10)
SUBJECT INDEX	591