Literature/1947/Northrop

Contents

 * The Initiation of Inquiry
 * The Analysis of the Problem
 * The Natural History Stage of Inquiry
 * The Stage of Deductively Formulated Theory
 * The Possible Concepts by Intuition and Concepts by Postulation as a Basic Terminology for Comparative Philosophy
 * The Two Kinds of Deductively Formulated Theory
 * Epistemic Correlations and Operational Definitions
 * The Method and Theories of Physical Science in Their Bearing on Biological Organization
 * The Functions and Future of Poetry
 * Body and Mind
 * The Concept of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
 * Causality in Field Physics in Its Bearing upon Biological Causation
 * The Method and Limited Predictive Power of Classical Economic Science
 * Generalizations in Social Science
 * Pareto's General Sociology
 * The Ideological Problems of Social Science
 * The Criterion of the Good State
 * Philosophical Method and World Peace
 * Toward a Bill of Rights for the United Nations
 * Educational Method for World Understanding
 * The Scientific Method for Determining the Normative Social Theory of Ends of Human Action
 * The Physical Sciences, Philosophy and Human Values
 * The Methods and Grounds of Religious Knowledge
 * Logic and Civilization.

Main features

 * Concepts by intuition and by postulation


 * Comparison
 * Extensional and intensional meaning (1947/Carnap)
 * Extensional and Intensional Meaning (1949/Hayakawa, p. 58)

Reprints
Reprinted by Ox Bow Press, in 1979, together with:
 * Science and First Principles, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931.
 * The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946.

Reviews

 * JSTOR, 1948
 * APA abstract, 2010
 * Christopher Chantrill, 2005