g." C. J. Keyser.
(2) The physicist's point of view:
POINCARE, HENRI.
"The Foundations of Science." The Science Press, N. Y., 1913.
Selection from contents: Science and hypothesis. Number and magnitude.
Space. Force. Nature. II. The value of science. The mathematical sciences.
The physical sciences. The objective value of science. III. Science and
method. Science and the scientist. Mathematical reasoning. The new
mechanics. Astronomic science.
(3) The human, civilizing, practical life, point of view:
KEYSER, CASSIUS J.
"Science and Religion: The Rational and the Super-rational." The Yale
University Press.
"The New Infinity and the Old Theology." The Yale University Press.
"The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking." Essays and Addresses. Columbia
University Press, 1916.
Selection from contents: The human worth of rigorous thinking. The human
significance of mathematics. The walls of the world; or concerning the
figure and the dimensions of the Universe of space. The universe and
beyond. The existence of the hypercosmic. The axiom of infinity: A new
presupposition of thought. Research in American Universities. Mathematical
productivity in the United States.
"Mathematical Philosophy, the Study of Fate and Freedom. Lectures for
Educated Laymen." Forthcoming Book.
Selection from contents of general interest: The mathematical obligations
of philosophy. Humanistic and industrial education. Logic the muse of
thought. Radiant aspects of an over-world.--Verifiers and falsifiers.
Significance and nonsense.--Distinction of logical and psychological. A
diamond test of harmony.--Distinction of doctrine and method.--Theoretical
and practical doubt.--Mathematical philosophy in the role of critic. A
world uncriticised--the garden of the devil. "Supersimian" Wisdom.
Autonomous truth and autonomous falsehood. Other Varieties of truth and
untruth. Mathematics as the study of fate and freedom. The prototype of
reasoned discourse often disguised as in the Declaration of Independence,
the Constitution of the United States, the Origin of Species, the Sermon
on the Mount.--Nature of mathematical transformation. No transformation, no
thinking. Transformation law essentially psychological, Relation function
and transformation as three aspects of one thing. Its study, the common
enterprise of science. The static and the dynamic worlds. The problem of
time and kindred problems. Importation of time and suppressi
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