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Where is Philosophy Going?1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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Some years ago Max Planck published a small book with the title Where is Science Going? in vigorous protest against the idea that the doctrine of relativity in general and the new quanta physics in particular mean that “the quest of the absolute becomes eliminated from scientific progress.” That it seems to be time to raise a similar question with regard to philosophy was suggested to me at a recent conference held at Farnham Castle on the relation between science and philosophy, at which the new school of logical positivism was strongly represented by some of the ablest of the younger men.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1937

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page 388 note 1 The passage is quoted by Whitehead, in Science and the Modern World, p. 176Google Scholar, to emphasize the impoverishment which philosophy suffers on any other view in being deprived of its “proper role as a constant critic of partial formulations.”

page 388 note 2 Op. cit., p. 12.

page 388 note 3 Religion and Science, p. 230.

page 388 note 4 Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), pp. 17 and 30.

page 389 note 1 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, p. 187, prop. 6.522.

page 389 note 2 Op. cit., p. 189.

page 390 note 1 Lamont, W. D., Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, xv, p. 226.Google Scholar

page 393 note 1 Principle of Individuality and Value, p. 297. For the application of the same principle to art see the same writer’s quotation from Nettleship in Value and Destiny of the Individual, p. 42 foll.

page 393 note 2 Quoted Wallace’s, Logic of Hegel (Translation), p. 394.Google Scholar

page 394 note 1 The Scientific Outlook (1931), p. 278.