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VIII. PHILOSOPHICAL PEEIODICALS. PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. Vol. xiv., No. 3. A. E. Taylor. ' Truth and Practice.' [The truth of a statement is neither identical with, nor yet a determinate function of, its practical utility.] B. Erdmann. ' The Content and Validity of the Causal Law, II.' [The empiristic causal hypothesis is self-destructive. The assumption of a completely irregular and relationless alternation of impressions contradicts not only our experience, but also the conditions of our thought. Hence a neces- sary relation is implied in the thought of a constant sequence of events, which makes the uniformly following b really dependent upon the uni- formly preceding a.] H. A. Overstreet. ' Conceptual Completeness and Abstract Truth.' [Whatever new illumination the final category may bring, it will never be a complete alteration of meanings. Hence there may be meanings which we now possess that are true, finally and irreversibly, although we are ignorant of the precise character of the all-organising category.] A. W. Moore. ' Pragmatism and its Critics.' [Counter-criticism of Creighton, Bakewell, Royce and Baldwin.] Re- views of Books. Notices of New Books. Summaries of Articles. Notes. Vol. xiv., No. 4. Q. T. Ladd. ' Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. I.' [Contains a statement of the problems of philosophy (epistemo- logical, ontological, ethico-religious) as they were handed over to the nineteenth century by the Kantian Critique ; and a description of the lines of movement along which attempts at the improved solution of these problems have proceeded.] A. Lalande. ' Philosophy in France.' [Describes the material organisation of philosophy in France, and sketches present work and tendencies.] N. Smith. ' Traite de 1'infini cree : Trans- lation.' [English translation of Terrasson's TraitZ, with omission of less important passages.] Reviews of Books. Notices of New Books. Sum- maries of Articles. Notes. Vol. xiv., No. 5. W. R. Sorley. 'The Method of a Metaphysic of Ethics.' [" When a metaphysical theory makes the transition from non-ethical conceptions about reality to the conception of goodness, it does so by taking into account an aspect of experience which it had previously omitted " ; "a complete metaphysics cannot disregard the data of the moral consciousness". Illustration from the ethical method of T. H. Green.] E. Becher. ' The Philo- sophical Views of Ernst Mach.' Q. T. Ladd. 'The Development of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. n.' [Summarises the items of philosophical progress which may be credited to the nineteenth century, and surveys the status of the problems handed over to the twentieth.] T. De Laguna. 'Stages of the Discussion of Evolutionary Ethics.' [Five stages are distinguished, dealing with a supposed conflict between ethics and evolution ; with evolutionary laws as giving a standard of morality ; with the treatment of ethical problems in terms of the theory of organic evolution ; with the assertion of the specific nature of social, and especially moral evolution ; and with questions of method.] Reviews of Books. Notices of New Books. Summaries of Articles. Notes. Vol. xiv., No. 6. W. M. Urban. 'Appreciation and Description and the