Edward Gleason Spaulding

Edward Gleason Spaulding ( born August 6 1873 in Burlington, Vermont, † 1940) was an American philosopher. He worked from 1905 to 1940 at Princeton University and is regarded as the founder of the New Realism.

Philosophy

In common with other philosophers ( Edwin B. Holt, Walter T. Marvin, W. P. Montague, Ralph Barton Perry and Walter B. Pitkin ) he published in 1910 the manifesto that direction, in which the authors compared the idealistic mainstream heavily made ​​a realistic philosophy. During the discussion, a debate arose relations of external experiences. The central figures of this discussion were Spaulding and John Dewey.

Spaulding is aimed explicitly against the Aristotelian logic in philosophy. He denies that causality and substance are universal and will make strong the consideration of the relation.

His realism refers not only to existent spatial or temporal entities. It differs subsistents and existents. The subsistents after its conception including universals and ideals.

Spaulding uses for his studies the relationship between part and whole. This relation it is used, for example, in the study of the analysis.

Works

  • The New Rationalism. The development of a constructive realism upon the basis of modern logic and science, and through criticism of Opposed system. New York: Henry Holt 1918
  • A World of Chance. New York: Macmillan, 1936

Article

  • The postulate of a Self- Critical Epistemology. Philosophical Review 18 (1909 ) 6, 615-641
  • The Logical Structure of Self- Refuting system: I. phenomenalism. Philosophical Review 19 (1910 ) 3, 276-301
  • The Logical Structure of Self- Refuting system: II Ontological Absolutism. Philosophical Review 19 (1910 ) 6, 610-631
  • Driesch 's theory of vitalism. Philosophical Review 15 (1906 ) 5, 518-527
  • Realism: A Reply to Professor Dewey and on exposure. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 8 (1911 ) 3, 63-77
  • A Reply to Professor Dewey's Rejoinder. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 8 (1911 ) 21, 566-574
  • Joint Discussion with Articles of Agreement and Disagreement: Professor Dewey and Dr. Spaulding. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 8 (1911 ) 21, 574-579
  • A defense of analysis. In: Edwin B. Holt et al: The new realism. cooperative studies in philosophy. New York: Macmillan 1912, 155-247
  • Realistic Aspects of Royce 's Logic. Philosophical Review 25 (1916 ) 3, 365-377
  • Are There Any Necessary Truths? . Journal of Philosophy 26 (1929 ) 12, 309-329
  • Freedom, Necessity, and Mind. Philosophical Review 42 (1933 ) 2, 156-201
  • The Case for Contingency. Journal of Philosophy 35 (1938 ) 26, 701-712
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