NATURAL DUALISM

LOVEJOY, ARTHUR O.

The Revolt Against Dualism. An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas.

WW Norton & Company, Inc., (1930). Royal 8vo. Orig. green full cloth w. gilt lettering to spine, traces of wear. Some spots to boards; capitals and corners a bit bumped. One leaf w. a hole, not affecting text. XII, (2), 325 pp.

First edition of this classic in the development of philosophical Realism in the United States.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873-1962) was one of the leading American Critical Realists and an influential intellectual historian, who founded the field of "history of ideas".

In his seminal "Revolt Against Dualism", Lovejoy sets out to state and defend epistemological dualism against direct theory of perception. Lovejoy claims that such a dualism, as opposed to the views of Idealism or other forms of Realism, is rooted in our human nature, and as such it can be validated by philosophical reflection upon this nature.

With the ownership signature of Samuel Skulsky, the famous Jewish philosopher of science and logic.

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