C. D. Broad

CD Broad, Charlie Dunbar Broad actually, ( born December 30, 1887 in Harlesden, Middlesex, † March 11, 1971 ) was a British philosopher.

Charlie Dunbar Broad ( who hated his name and therefore traded as CD Broad) went after attending a preparatory school in 1900 at the Dulwich College and 1906 to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, science, and philosophy. His teachers were there, among others, Bertrand Russell and George Edward Moore. After his dissertation, Perception, Physics, and Reality in 1911 he became a Fellow. In the same year he went to St. Andrews University, where he worked as an assistant to George Frederick Stout. In 1920 he took up a teaching post at the University of Bristol, until he returned in 1923 as a successor to John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart as a lecturer in ethics to Cambridge. From 1933 to 1953 he was Professor of Moral Philosophy.

Broad was 1927/1928 and 1954/1955 president of the Aristotelian Society and 1935/1936 and 1959/1960 president of the Society for Psychical Research.

Work

Broads thinking was strongly influenced by Bertrand Russell, GE Moore and McTaggart affected. He has published work on virtually all areas of philosophy and philosophy of science. His first important work was Perception, Physics and Reality, published in 1914. Scientific Thought, the result of discussions with George Frederick Stout, followed in 1923, and in 1925 Broads Tarner Lectures were published in Nature under the title The Mind and Its Place.

Broad was instrumental in the development of emergence theory. His emergenztheoretischen considerations have increasingly been found in recent years in the philosophy of mind again attention. This is largely due to the problems that occur when attempting to experience levels (or qualia ) to explain reductively.

Broad assumed that the brain and the sense organs work eliminative especially. That is according to Broad, that they filter out from the variety of impressions of the objective world, only those that are necessary for biological survival.

In ethics Broad is known for its subdivision ethical theories in deontological and teleological theories.

Publications

  • Perception, physics and reality. An Enquiry into the Information did Physical Science can supply about the Real. Cambridge University Press, 1914 (PDF, 54.07 MB)
  • Scientific thought. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York, 1923 ( excerpt)
  • The Mind and its place in nature. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1925 ( Ch. 4 and Ch. 13)
  • The Philosophy of Francis Bacon. Cambridge University Press, 1926
  • Five types of ethical theory. Harcourt, Brace and Co., New York 1930
  • Thoughts War in Peacetime. Humphrey Milford, London 1931
  • An examination of McTaggart 's philosophy. Volume 1 Cambridge University Press, 1933
  • Determinism, interdeterminism and libertarianism. Cambridge University Press, 1934
  • An examination of McTaggart 's philosophy. Volume 2 Cambridge University Press, 1938
  • Berkeley 's argument About Material Substance. 1942
  • Hume's Doctrine of Space. 1961
  • Ethics and the history of philosophy. Humanities Press, New York 1952; Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-22530-2
  • Religion, philosophy and psychical research. Routledge, London 1953; Reprint 2000, ISBN 0-415-22558-2
  • Human Personality and the Possibility of Its Survival. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1955
  • Personal Identity and Survival. Society for Psychical Research, London 1958
  • Lectures on Psychical Research. Incorporating the Perrott Lectures at Cambridge University in 1959 givenName and 1960. Humanities Press, New York, 1962 ( contains Saltmarsh 's Investigation of Mrs. Warren Elliott's Mediumship )
  • Induction, Probability, and Causation. Selected Papers of C. D. Broad. Reidel, Dordrecht 1968
  • Broad 's Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy. Humanities Press, New York 1971
  • Leibniz. An introduction. Edited by Casimir Lewy. Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 0 - 521-20691 -X
  • Berkeley 's argument. Haskell House Pub Ltd. , 1976
  • Kant An introduction. Edited by Casimir Lewy. Cambridge University Press, 1978, ISBN 0-521-21755-5
  • Ethics. Nijhoff, Dordrecht 1985
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