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White, Morton Gabriel was born on April 29, 1917 in New York City. Son of Robert and Esther (Levine) Weisberger.
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Here, Morton White presents the first synoptic view of the major philosophical ideas in The Federalist. Using the tools of philosophy and intellectual history, White extracts and examines the interlocking theory of knowledge, doctrine of normative ethics, psychology of motivation, and even metaphysics and theology, all of which were used in different degrees by the founding fathers in defense of the Constitution.
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One of the main philosophical puzzles is the question of free will: what is it? do we have it? how do we know we have it? In this highly original study, noted philosopher Morton White offers a novel defense of the position that we may believe in free will without denying or accepting determinism. White is especially concerned to interpret the statement that a person is free to choose to do something. If it means that not making the choice is not causally necessitated, the question arises: "Not causally necessitated by what?" Antideterminists answer: "Not causally necessitated by anything," whereas those who avoid antideterminism may answer: "Not causally necessitated by an attack of mental disease or by hypnosis." In evaluating these opposing views, White appeals to holism, which says that we do not test isolated statements but groups of statements. Moreover, he regards the statement that an obligatory choice must be free as a moral principle. With the help of these views, he shows how one's view of free choice varies with one's view of a moral excuse. He also shows convincingly why anti-determinism should be rejected in favor of an opposing theory that organizes the relevant data in a simpler way without abandoning beliefs that many of us are reluctant to surrender.
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One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Morton White has spent a career building bridges among the increasingly fragmented worlds of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. From a Philosophical Point of View is a selection of White's best essays, written over a period of more than sixty years. Together these selections represent the belief that philosophers should reflect not only on mathematics and science but also on other aspects of culture, such as religion, art, history, law, education, and morality. White's essays cover the full range of his interests: studies in ethics, the theory of knowledge, and metaphysics as well as in the philosophy of culture, the history of pragmatism, and allied currents in social, political, and legal thought. The book also includes pieces on philosophers who have influenced White at different stages of his career, among them William James, John Dewey, G. E. Moore, and W. V. Quine. Throughout, White argues from a holistic standpoint against a sharp epistemological distinction between logical and physical beliefs and also against an equally sharp one between descriptive and normative beliefs. White maintains that once the philosopher abandons the dogma that the logical analysis of mathematics and physics is the essence of his subject, he frees himself to resume his traditional role as a student of the central institutions of civilization. Philosophers should function not merely as spectators of all time and existence, he argues, but as empirically minded students of culture who try to use some of their ideas for the benefit of society.
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Philosophy in the twentieth century is directly related to the concerns of the average man and the problems of culture. In this stimulating volume, Morton White, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, presents some of the influential modern philosophical writing in the fields of existentialism, logical analysis, linguistics and science and on the concepts of time, instinct and organism, showing their significance for man today. Through his choice of philosophers and his incisive commentary, Mr. White presents the philosophy of our day in all its complexity and diversity.
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The Age of Analysis, which has been edited by the eminent teacher and author, Morton White, covers the thoughts, writings, times and personalities of twentieth century philosophers. Professor White illuminates modern philosophy by clear and brilliant commentaries on the writings of leading philosophers in the fields of logic, philosophical and linguistic analysis, existentialism and phenomenology and deals with the concepts of time, instinct and organism. Here are well-chosen selections from G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, deans of contemporary British philosophy; Benedetto Croce, foremost Italian philosopher of this century; Sartre, existentialist; William James, John Dewey and Charles Peirce, leaders in the American movement of pragmatism, and from the works of George Santayana, Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others whose philosophies are of importance to 20th century thinking.
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White, Morton Gabriel was born on April 29, 1917 in New York City. Son of Robert and Esther (Levine) Weisberger.
White attended City College of New York as an undergraduate before doing his postgraduate studies at Columbia University, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1942 and was influenced by John Dewey.
He was a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard from 1953 to 1970, and since then has been at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey where he is currently professor emeritus. In 1949 he published Social Thought in America, a critical history of liberal social philosophy as represented by the ideas of Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior., Thorstein Veblen, Charles A. Beard, and James Harvey Robinson. "Time and recent events," he wrote, "have brought the liberal outlook under a very different kind of attackan attack with which I have no sympathyand I fear that my own critical observations might wrongly be associated with arguments, positions, and purposes quite foreign to my own." In his 1956 work, Toward Reunion in Philosophy, White attempted to reconcile the pragmatic and analytic traditions in American philosophy.
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Author: The Origin of Dewey's Instrumentalism, 1943, Social Thought in America, 1949, The Age of Analysis, 1955, Toward Reunion in Philosophy, 1956, Religion, Politics, and the Higher Learning, 1959. (with Lucia White) The Intellectual Versus the City, 1962. Editor: (with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Junior) Paths of American Thought, 1963, Foundations of Historical Knowledge, 1965, Science and Sentiment in America, 1972, Documents in the History of American Philosophy, 1972, Pragmatism and the American Mind, 1973, The Philosophy of the American Revolution, 1978, What Is and What Ought to Be Done, 1981.
(with Lucia White) Journeys to the Japanese, 1952-1979, 1986, Philosophy, The Federalist and the Constitution, 1987, The Question of Free Will, 1993, A Philosopher's Story, 1999, A Philosophy of Culture, 2002, From a Philosophical Point of View, 2005.
When the book was republished in 1957 he added a preface in which he softened some of his criticisms, and he added an epilogue in which he attacked the religious liberalism of Reinhold Niebuhr and the conservatism of Walter Lippmann.
He is a proponent of a doctrine he calls Holistic Pragmatism and is also a noted scholar of American intellectual history. But White rejects Quine"s view that "Philosophy of science is philosophy enough." Using the framework of Holistic Pragmatism, White argues that philosophical inquiry can just as well be applied to cultural institutions beyond science, such as law and art A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism (Princeton University Press, 2002)
From a Philosophical Point of View: Selected Studies (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society, American Philosophical Society.
Married Lucia Perry, August 29, 1940 (deceased). Children: Nicholas Perry, Stephen Daniel. Married Helen Starobin, June 30, 1997.