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PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. 129 aary Point of View for Psychology?' [Realistic.] W. B. Pitkin. Problems, Old and New. ' [The 'new' logic is that of humanism.] ' Logical "William James. ' Is Eadical Empiricism Solipsistic ? ' [Answers II. 5 and protests against the rationalistic tendency to chop experience up into discontinuous static objects.] 11.10. G. Rebec. ' Natural vs. Artistic Beauty.' A. L. Kellogg. ' The Possibility of a Psychological Consider- ation of Freedom.' 11.11. William James. ' The Place of Affectional Facts in a World of Pure Experience.' [As classifications depend on our temporary purposes, and no urgent need has yet arisen for treating them as rigorously mental or physical, their position is naturally ambiguous.] R. McDougall. ' The Discrimination of Critical and Creative Attitudes. A. H. Pierce. ' An Unusual Feature of the Hypnagogic State. ' [Vision of a flower seen but not attended to.] II. 12. W. P. Montague. ' The Relational Theory of Consciousness and Its Realistic Implica- tions.' H. A. Overstreet. 'A Deduction of the Law of Synthesis.' J. Dewey. ' The Realism of Pragmatism.' [Regards "the presupposi- tions and tendencies of pragmatism as distinctly realistic " ; what it " takes from idealism is just and only empiricism," and " the meaning of subjectivism is just anii-dualism ". ] II. 13. A. H. Lloyd. 'The Personal and the Factional in the Life of Society.' [" There is a case for pragmatism in just so far as there is a case for personality " against the factional and professional. ] I. W. Riley . ' Recent Theories of Genius.' II. 14. J. E. Boodin. ' The Concept of Time.' [Reality in the concrete is a willing process, and meanings are relative to an active self which constructs the past and future.] J. A. Leighton. ' Self and Not-Self in Primitive Experience.' Western Philosophical Association meeting. II. 15. J. Dewey. ' The Postulate of Immediate Empiri- cism.' [That things "are what they are experienced as," but from the bare concept nothing positive follows.] C. V. Tower. 'A Neglected Context in Radical Empiricism.' [Discusses James's conception of con- sciousness in I. 18.] R. M. Ogden. ' The ^Esthetic Attitude.' [Activity is not always salutary.] II. 16. C. V. Tower. ' The Total Context of Transcendentalism.' C. J. Herrick. ' A Functional View of Nature as seen by a Biologist.' [Instead of saying things are known to us only through their behaviour, we should say " the behaviour is the thing so far as known ". Structure therefore can be denned only in terms of function and mind is function.] II. 17. W. B. Pitkin. ' The Psycho- logy of Eternal Truths.' [There are timeless meanings immediately experienced, but they yield no reason why truth or falsehood should be predicated of them. This is why humanists neglect them. Still this " mere psychological timelessness is the point of departure for every logical theory".] H. F. Osborn. 'The Ideas and Terms of Modern Philosophical Anatomy.' H. B. Alexander. 'Quantity, Quality and the Function of Knowledge.' 11.18. W. E. Hocking. ' The Function of Science in Shaping Philosophic Method.' [A suggestive paper on empiricism and rationalism in their relation to system. " Not system is empiricism's ultimate aversion, but the pretended knowledge of ultimate wholes, assertion of the finishedness of the infinite." " The whole cult of the given is at heart an assertion of the final impenetrability of existence."] F.Arnold. ' The Unity of Mental Life.' [Psychological.] 11.19. D. F. Swenson. 'The Category of the Unknowable.' J. D. Stoops. ' The Psychology of Religion.' [Conversion is a change from an ego-centric consciousness to a sense of unity with the deeper meaning of life.] C. M. Bake well. 'Prof. Dewey on Immediate Empiricism.' II. 20. J. R. Angell. ' Psychology at the St. Louis Congress. ' E. L. Thorndike. 'Measurement of Twins. II. 21. W. T. Bush. ' An Empirical Defini- tion of Consciousness. ' [Further discussion of the ' non-existence ' of 9