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X.—NEW BOOKS

Journal Article X.—NEW BOOKS Get access Does it Folloes ?. By M. H. CARRÉ., Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bristol. London: Thomas Kelson & Sons, 1944, reprinted with additions, 1949. Pp. 174. G.C.J. MIDGLEY G.C.J. MIDGLEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LXI, Issue 243, July 1952, Pages 434–439, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LXI.243.434 Published: 01 July 1952

Reviews

Kathleen Coburn, ed., The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, reviewed by M. H. Abrams Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, Complete in Two Parts, reviewed by M. A. Buchanan J. E. Shaw, Guido Cavalcanti's Theory of Love: The Canzone d'Amore and Other Related Problems, reviewed by Ernest H. Wilkins Isaac Deutscher, Stalin: A Poltical Biography, reviewed by Leonid I. Strakhovsky

REVIEWS

REVIEWS Get access The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by KATHLEEN COBURN. Pp. 480. London: The Pilot Press 1949. 25s. net. J. N. FINDLAY J. N. FINDLAY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume II, Issue 5, 1951, Pages 192–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/II.5.192 Published: 01 January 1951

The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hitherto Unpublished. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. (London: The Pilot Press, Ltd. Pp. 480. Price 25s.)

The Philosophical Lectures of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hitherto Unpublished. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. (London: The Pilot Press, Ltd. Pp. 480. Price 25s.)

Book Reviews

Abstract Abstract Business Cycles and Forecasting. Third Edition. Elmer Clark Bratt (Professor of Economics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.). Chicago, Ill., Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 3201 S. Michigan Ave. 1948. Pp. vi, 585. $5.00. Review by Joseph A. Schumpeter Department of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts Probability and Induction. William Kneale (Fellow of Exeter College, Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Oxford, Oxford, England). Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C. 4. 1949. Pp. viii, 264. $3.75. Review by John H. Smith Department of Statistics, American University Washington 6, D. C. Quantitative Methods in Psychology. Don Lewis (Professor of Psychology, State University of Iowa). Iowa City, Iowa, The Book Shop, 114 East Washington St. 1949. Pp. 286. Paper. Review by Philip Desind Statistician, Navy Department, Washington 25, D.C. Acceptance Sampling: A Symposium given at the 105th Annual Meeting. American Statistical Association, 1603 K Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., March 1950. Pp. 155. $1.50. Review by H. A. Freeman Associate Professor of Statistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass.

VII.—NEW BOOKS

Journal Article VII.—NEW BOOKS Get access The Problems of Philosophy. By SATISCHANDRA CHATTERJEE, Lecturer in Philosophy, Calcutta University. Calcutta: Das Gupta & Co. Ltd., 1949. Pp. xvi + 345. Rs.6/8. G. P. HENDERSON G. P. HENDERSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LIX, Issue 235, July 1950, Page 420, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LIX.235.420 Published: 01 July 1950

Hindu Medicine

Journal Article Hindu Medicine Get access Hindu Medicine. By Henry R. Zimmer, Ph.D., Late Lecturer in Philosophy at Columbia University; formerly Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Heidelberg. Edited with a foreword and preface by Ludwig Edelstein, Ph.D. Cloth. Price, $4. Pp. 203. Johns Hopkins Press, Homewood, Baltimore 18, 1948. Physical Therapy, Volume 29, Issue 10, October 1949, Page 486, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/29.10.486b Published: 01 October 1949

Probability and Induction. By William Kneale, Fellow of Exeter College and Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Oxford. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1949. Pp. 264. Price 15s. net.)

Probability and Induction. By William Kneale, Fellow of Exeter College and Lecturer in Philosophy in the University of Oxford. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1949. Pp. 264. Price 15s. net.)

Hindu Medicine

Hindu Medicine Get access Hindu Medicine. By Zimmer Henry R., Late Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Columbia University, Formerly Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Heidelberg. Edited with a Foreword and Preface by Edelstein Ludwig, PH.D. 203 pp. $4.00. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1948. Harold C. Mack Harold C. Mack Detroit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 19, Issue 9, 1 September 1949, Page 854, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/19.9.854a Published: 01 September 1949

VI.—NEW BOOKS

Journal Article VI.—NEW BOOKS Get access Moral Intuition and the Principle of Sdf-realisatim. By C. A. CAMFBKLL. Annual philosophical lecture (Uenriette Hertz Trust), British Academy, 1948. Proc. of the British Academy, vol. xxxiv. London, Geoffrey Cumberlegc. Pp. 36. Price 5s. 6d. D. MITCHELL D. MITCHELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, July 1949, Pages 405-a–405, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/LVIII.231.405-a Published: 01 July 1949

Moral Intuition and the Principle of Self-Realisation. By C. A. Campbell. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Hertz Trust. British Academy, 1948. (Cumberlege, Oxford University Press; 5s. 6d.)

Moral Intuition and the Principle of Self-Realisation. By C. A. Campbell. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Hertz Trust. British Academy, 1948. (Cumberlege, Oxford University Press; 5s. 6d.)

The British Institute of Philosophy

ON April 6 of this yeartjtf British Institute of Philosophy (University Hall, 14 Gordon Square, London, W.CO)completed the first twenty-one years of its existence. The occasion was marked by a letter to The Times from Lord Samuel, president, Sir David Ross chairman, and Lord Lindsay, vice-chairman of the Institute. A leading article in the same issue, “The Sovereign Mind”, dealing with the work of the Institute, stressed the need for the pursuit of abstract truth and the scrutiny of ideas offered to the people as springs of action. Founded “to serve as a link between philosophers and the everyday world”, the Institute has fulfilled this aim in many ways. It has organised courses of philosophical lectures as well as popular addresses in London. It has founded branches in Bangor, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Durham, and Sheffield under the auspices of the Universities in those centres, and usually under the direct guidance of the head or some member of their departments of philosophy giving his services free. Its journal Philosophy, which ranks with professional journals in philosophy and draws contributions from the leading philosophers in Britain, has performed the feat of compelling philosophers to write so as to be understood by laymen, and has achieved as a result the unique distinction of being read with enjoyment and profit by laymen and philosophers alike. All this has been done with a membership of only a little more than a thousand.

Prof. William Peddie

PROF. WILLIAM PEDDIE, who died at his home in Dundee on June 2, was born in Papa Westray, one of the most northerly islands in Orkney, in 1861. He was a son of the manse, his father being a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was educated at Kirkwall Grammar School, learning to be a sailor as well as a mathematician-a friend speaks of being compelled to admiration by his superb handling of their craft in a nasty bit of sea. In 1880 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he studied natural philosophy under P. G. Tait and mathematics under George Chrystal. In 1883 he was appointed University assistant in natural philosophy and formed a close association with Tait, in whose physical laboratory he worked. In an article on Tait and his work written many years later, Peddie records the intense admiration felt for the great master by all his students : “From the record of his life and work, men who never knew him may come under the magic spell and be enrolled in the list of his disciples”. Tait had early expressed the hope that the large subject of natural philosophy would before long be represented by two chairs. The first step was taken in 1892, when C. G. Knott was appointed lecturer in applied mathematics and W. Peddie lecturer in natural philosophy.

Immaterialism. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Herz Trust, British Academy, By A. A. Luce. (London: Humphrey Milford. 1944. Pp. 16. Price 2s.)

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University of London

PROF. FRANK HORTON has been re-elected vice-chancellor of the University of London. Recent appointments in the University include the following: Dr. H. B. Acton, lecturer in philosophy at Bedford College, to the University chair of philosophy tenable at Bedford College. Dr. H. T. Flint, reader in physics at King's College, to the Hildred Carlile chair of physics tenable at Bedford College. Dr. W. N. Bailey, lecturer in mathematics in the University of Manchester, to the University chair of mathematics tenable at Bedford College. The title of reader in zoology in the University has been conferred on Mr. G. P. Wells in respect of the post held by him at University College. The degree of D.Sc. has been conferred on E. J. Irons (Queen Mary College), A. G. Quarrell (Imperial College), R. W. Powell and R. H. Common.

John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744)

IN the later years of Newton's life, there were few figures better known among the men of science in London than that of the short, thickset, near-sighted but broadminded and generous Frenchman, John Theophilus Desaguliers, who died on February 29 two hundred years ago in his lodgings near Covent Garden. Born at La Rochelle on March 12, 1683, he was brought to England by his father at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and spent the remainder of his life here. At first his father was minister of the French chapel in Swallow Street, London, but also had a school at Islington. The son helped his father and then proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, and after taking his degree qualified for the Church. In 1710 he was appointed successor to Keill as lecturer in natural philosophy at Hart Hall, and three years later removed to Westminster, living first in Channel Row and then over the Bedford Coffee House, lecturing with great success year after year to "persons of all ranks and professions and even the ladies". He gained a reputation, too, by his translation of s'Gravesande's "Elements of Natural Philosophy". For many years he was demonstrator to the Royal Society and it Was to him that the first actual Copley Medal was given, although both he and Stephen Gray had previously received monetary awards under the Copley bequest. As a clergyman he held various livings, one of these being that of Whitchurch, Middlesex, of the church of which Handel was organist. In his works he gives full particulars of the many experiments he made and also much information about the principal mechanical constructions of his time. His death took place when he was nearly sixty-one, and he was buried in the Savoy. One of his sons, Thomas Desaguliers (died 1788), for many years superintended Woolwich Arsenal, and was the first scientific investigator into gunnery in the British Army.

Prof. Susan Stebbing

DR. L. SUSAN STEBBING, since 1933 professor of philosophy in the University of London (Bedford College), died on September 11 at the age of fifty-seven at Tintagel in Cornwall. Educated at Girton College, Cambridge, she read for both parts of the Historical Tripos and for Part I of the Moral Sciences Tripos. In 1912 she graduated M.A. in philosophy, with mark of distinction, at London. After acting as director of moral science studies at Girton and Newnham, Dr. Stebbing was appointed successively lecturer, reader and professor in philosophy in the University of London.

Berkeley's Argument about Material Substance. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Hertz Trust, British Academy. By C. D. Broad, Fellow of the Academy; read 03 25th, 1942. (From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVIII. Humphrey Milford, London. Pp. 22. Price 1s. 6d.)

Berkeley's Argument about Material Substance. Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henriette Hertz Trust, British Academy. By C. D. Broad, Fellow of the Academy; read 03 25th, 1942. (From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XXVIII. Humphrey Milford, London. Pp. 22. Price 1s. 6d.) - Volume 18 Issue 70

Obituaries

PROF. OSKAR KRAUS, formerly lecturer in philosophy at the German university of Prague, died in Oxford on September 26 at the age of seventy. He was an authority on Czech philosophy and had also written a number of works on the history of philosophy and science, emphasizing their significance in any scheme for promoting a lasting peace.

Reason and Intuition. By A. C. Ewing, M.A., Litt.D., Lecturer in Moral Science, University of Cambridge, Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henrietta Hertz Trust, British Academy, Humphrey Milford. 1941. Pp. 43. Price 2s. 6d. net.

Reason and Intuition. By A. C. Ewing, M.A., Litt.D., Lecturer in Moral Science, University of Cambridge, Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henrietta Hertz Trust, British Academy, Humphrey Milford. 1941. Pp. 43. Price 2s. 6d. net. - Volume 17 Issue 66