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“Feeling” and Other Problems in Whitehead’s Metaphysics [PDF]

This essay highlights certain problems attending Whitehead’s metaphysics beginning with his ambiguous use of feeling, extending on to his dogmatic rejection of bifurcation due largely to his misunderstanding of Poincaré’s conventionalism, his ...
Flannery, Michael A
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Types of religious certainty implied by Kant's treatment of the problem of God [PDF]

, 1952
Thesis (Ph.D)--Boston UniversityIn the light of the thought of Immanuel Kant is there any justifiable certainty (particularly of God's existence)? This problem involves the subordinate problem: can logical certainty and psychological certainty (certitude)
Barrett, Earl Edward
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Tradition and change in John Dewey's social philosophy [PDF]

, 1940
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 1940. Includes bibliographyThe selection of the problem of tradition and change in John Dewey's social philosophy was prompted by the desire to evaluate his views and test their adequacy for reconstruction in China ...
Fosnot, Pearl Beatrice
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The theism of Hermann Lotze [PDF]

, 1941
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1941.
Miller, Taylor Edward
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The community and the individual in the later philosophy of Josiah Royce. [PDF]

, 1953
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThe problem of this dissertation is to investigate the changes in Josiah Royce's philosophic development with special reference to the bearing of these changes on the status of the individual.
Sprague, Wayne Llewellyn Carlyle
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A Political Companion to John Steinbeck [PDF]

, 2013
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–1968) has frequently been censored.
Stow, Simon, Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto
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Lotze's conception of the self [PDF]

, 1950
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityThe purpose of this dissertation is to expound Hermann Lotze's (1817-1881) conception of the self, and to evaluate it in the light of subsequent scientific developments which are relevant to it.
Thompson, Tyler
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F. C. S. Schiller and the Style of Pragmatic Humanism [PDF]

, 2006
This dissertation is a rhetorical biography of Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1864-1937), the foremost British proponent of pragmatism at the turn of the previous century.
Porrovecchio, Mark Joseph
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The problem of evil in some recent philosophies of religion [PDF]

, 1948
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948.
Partridge, Ethel Marie
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Conceptions of Formative Processes in Western Science and Eastern Philosophy [PDF]

, 1958
The central theme of this paper concerns the way Eastern and Western (sometimes termed Oriental and Occidental) thought view the formation of the world; the means of arriving at these conclusions and the concepts or pre-conceived ideas upon which they ...
Kaufmann, Glenn E.
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