Autorentext
Stephen C. Pepper, well known for this and his many other contributions to the field of philosophy, was at the time of his death Mills Professor Emeritus of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Klappentext

Examines six hypotheses - animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism - and surveys the field of metaphysics. This book is suitable for use as a text in courses in metaphysics, types of philosophical theory, or present tendencies in philosophy.

Inhalt
PART ONE: THE ROOT-METAPHOR THEORY
I. The Utter Skeptic
II. Dogmatists
III. Evidence and Corroboration
IV. Hypotheses
V. Root Metaphors
VI. Examples of Inadequacies in World Hypotheses

PART TWO: THE RELATIVELY ADEQUATE HYPOTHESES
VII. A General View of the Hypotheses
VIII. Formism
IX. Mechanism
X. Contextualism
XI. Organicism

PART THREE: SUMMARY, CRITICISMS, AND ANSWERS
XII. Review and Conclusions