The Concept of Consciousness. E-book. Formato PDF Edwin B. Holt   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Clearly the present volume will not aim to be a system. But it does profess not to forget the initial quest of philosophy, and toward this goal it seeks to indicate some little way of advance. Its scope is limited, for it proposes only to give a consistent account, a definition, of one very common yet perplexing feature of the universe — consciousness. Of course, this has been defined many times before, and much discussed, yet so often without consistency and so strikingly without agreement that the last word, very obviously, has by no means been said.

The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy. E-book. Formato PDF Edwin B. Holt   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

ON July 21, 1910, we published a brief article entitled The Pro gram and First Platform of Six Realists,' 1 in which we indicated the direction philosophical inquiry ought to take. We there asserted that advance would be facilitated by cooperative investigations; and the drafting of the platform was a first attempt to confirm this belief. The present volume continues, on a larger scale, the work there inaugurated; and we hope it will be followed by other col lections of studies. The introductory essay voices our common opinions. The other essays do so only in part. It has seemed best to publish them with out laboring for complete unanimity, inasmuch as their agreements quite overshadow their differences. They have been written after prolonged conferences. A few important debatable topics are brie?y discussed by dissenting members in the Appendix.