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Broad was born on December 30, 1887 in Harlesden, in Middlesex, England.
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This book, first published in 1975, provides critical and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of Leibniz. C.D. Broad was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge from 1933 to 1953 and this book is based on his undergraduate lectures on Leibniz. Broad died in 1971 and Dr Lewy has since edited the book for publication. Leibniz is, of course, recognized as a major figure in all courses in the history of philosophy, but he has perhaps been less well served by textbook writers than most other philosophers. Broad has provided here a characteristically shrewd and sympathetic survey which further confirms his known virtues as an historian and expositor. It is a very clear, detailed and orderly guide to what is notoriously a most difficult (and sometimes disorderly) philosophical system; it provides a masterful introduction to the subject.
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By natural science, for the present purpose, I mean physics. When a certain way of looking at the universe meets with the extraordinary success with which that of physics has met it becomes the duty of the philosopher to investigate it with care; for it is likely to offer a very much better Cosmology than his own unaided efforts can do. A nd, if philosophy is to take into account empirical facts and it is extremely difficult to see what it will be able to tell us about the existent unless it does it can hardly neglect the most fruitful and thorough investigation of certain large branches of empirical facts that has yet been made. But natural science starts with certain assumptions, and, as it goes on, it developes certain general conclusions about the real world. For instance, it starts with a position not far removed from naif realism, and, in its progress, it draws a distinction between the reality of primary and secondary qualities, and develOpes a causal theory of perception. Now the distinction between primary and secondary qualities as to their reality is a metaphysical question, and science seems historically to have taken over its answer to it from Descartes. This has led quite reasonably to an attack on science from later philosophers who have not agreed that it was possible to stop at the point at which Descartes and natural science stopped in this matter. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.
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Originally published in 1934, this book presents the content of an inaugural lecture delivered by the British philosopher Charles Dunbar Broad (1887-1971), upon taking up the position of Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge University. The text presents a discussion of the relationship between determinism, indeterminism and libertarianism. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Broad and the history of philosophy.
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Trinity College, Cambridge, the trustees of the Perrott Bequest for the furtherance of psychical research, invited me to give, in theL ent term of 1959, a course of lectures in the university on that subject. At my own request I gave a second course in theL ent term of 1960. It is provided in the ordinance governing the Perrott Lectureship that the lecturer shall pubhsh the substance of his lectures, and the present work was written and is now published in fulfilment of that obH gation. I thought that I might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb, and so I have taken the opportunity to embody a great deal besides the substance of the twelve lectures dehvered in 1959 and 1960. Some of the additional material is ultimately derived from lectures and articles already pubU shed, and some of it is concerned with topics which I have not handled before in my pubU shed writings. In Section B, and particularly inC hapters VI and IX, I have made use of my Presidential Address of 1958 to the S.P.R., entitled Dreaming, and some of its I mphcations ,and my lecture of 1953 to the same society, entitled Phantasms of theL iving and of theD ead .T he Epilogue is based upon two published lectures, viz. the Foerster Lecture, Human Personahty and the PossibiU ty of Survival ,dehvered at Berkeley, California, in 1954 and published by the University of CaU fornia Press, and theM yers Memorial Lecture Personal Identity andS urvival ,dehvered under the auspices of the S.P.R. in 1958 and published by them. I acknowledge with thanks the kind permission granted to me by the S.P.R., and in particular the Trustees of theM yers Memorial Fund, and by the University of California Press, respectively, to incorporate the substance of these lectures in my book. I am under a continuous obligation to the Proceedings and the Journal of the S.P.R., as the main source of the materials of almo (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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A critical and detailed introduction to Kant's philosophy, with particular reference to the Critique of Pure Reason. Since Broad's death there have been many publications on Kant but Broad's 1978 book still finds a definite place between the very general surveys and the more specialised commentaries. He offers a characteristically clear, judicious and direct account of Kant's work; his criticisms are acute and sympathetic, reminding us forcefully that 'Kant's mistakes are usually more important than other people's correctitudes'. C.D. Broad was Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge from 1933 to 1953, and this book is based on his undergraduate lectures on Kant. Broad died in 1971 and Dr Lewy has since edited the book for publication.
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Epistemologist Historian of philosophy Moral philosopher Philosopher of science
Broad was born on December 30, 1887 in Harlesden, in Middlesex, England.
He was educated in Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and became professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University in 1933. He also taught, over the years, at Dundee, Dublin, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
In 1935 he was president of the Society for Psychical Research. Broad stressed as basic the distinction between critical and speculative philosophy, which he held to be distinct subjects requiring different methods of investigation. He maintained that the main task of critical philosophy is to clarify the meanings of such general concepts as cause, change, place, and thing. These are constantly used in ordinary life and in science, but nowhere, except in philosophy, do they constitute an explicit subject matter of investigation. Our ordinary understanding of such concepts is "highly confused, " as shown by the fact that when we consider them in somewhat unusual situations, we do not know whether to apply them or not. Thus, though we know the ordinary use of "place, " we are puzzled by the question, "In what place is the mirror image of a pin?" It is the concern of critical philosophy to make the meanings of such words clear by analysis and definition. Critical philosophy also subjects to criticism such fundamental assumptions of the sciences as the assumption that every change has a cause. The endeavor of speculative philosophy is more ambitious. It is to construct a theory of the universe that will do justice both to the results of the various sciences and to the implications of our moral and religious experience. On these latter problems he produced a series of remarkably lucid books, among which are Perception, Physics, and Reality (1914), The Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925), Five Types of Ethical Theory (1930), Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (Vol. I, 1933; Vol. II, 1938), a book of essays, Ethics and the History of Philosophy (1952), and Lectures on Psychical Research (1963). In 1960 The Philosophy of C. D. Broad was added to The Library of Living Philosophers. It contains 21 essays by leading philosophers on Broad's work, together with his autobiography and his "Reply" to his critics. Broad died in Cambridge on March 11, 1971.
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