Nature and Mind

Abstract

THE common presumption of the mutual indifference of philosophy and science has never been true of the masters. Every great creative mind in philosophy has been responsive to the scientific situation and method of his day, and most of those who have formulated the decisive hypotheses of the various sciences have recognised the scientific importance of those inquiries into the presuppositions of knowledge or into the most general features of reality, which are the proper business of philosophy. But though the greater movements of both disciplines have thus influenced each other, it is no doubt true-and part of the price we pay for our instrument of specialised investigation-that the detailed working out of these dominant conceptions in each field has proceeded with relatively little reference to the other; and that from time to time there has been evident a failure of adjustment and harmony. (1) Prolegomena, to an Idealist Theory of Knowledge. By Prof. Norman Kemp Smith. Pp. xiii + 240. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 10s. 6d. net. (2) Modern Theories of the Unconscious. By Dr. W. L. Northridge. Pp. xv + 194. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 8s. 6d. net. (3) The Nature of Laughter. By J. C. Gregory. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. v + 241. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1924.) 10s. 6d. net. (4) The Beautiful. By Henry Rutgers Marshall. Pp. x + 328. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 15s. net. (5) The Philosophy of Music. By Dr. William Pole. Sixth edition, with an Introduction by Edward J. Dent, and a Supplementary Essay by Dr. Hamilton Hartridge. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. xxiv + 342. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1924.) 10s. 6d. net.