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This recording is the second in an ongoing series of collections highlighting foundational articles in early 20th Century American philosophy.



Volume 2 focuses on the debates surrounding the emergence of the so-called 'New Realism.' Inspired by the early works of the American pragmatists, the new realists opposed idealistic and transcendental metaphysics, and advocated for various forms of empirical and scientific naturalism. (summary by P. J. Taylor)

Track List:01 - The Program and Platform of the Six Realists by Edwin B. Holt, Walter T. Marvin, W. P. Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B.Pitkin and Edward Gleason Spaulding02 - The Egocentric Predicament by R. B. Perry03 - Brief Studies in Realism I by John Dewey04 - Brief Studies in Realism II by John Dewey05 - The Inadequacy of ‘Natural’ Realism by Durant Drake06 - Reflections of a Temporalist on the New Realism by A. O. Lovejoy07 - Report of the Committee on Definitions of the American Philosophical Association by F. J. E. Woodbridge, Frank Thilly, Dickinson S. Miller, Arthur O. Lovejoy, W. P. Montague, and E. G. Spaulding08 - The Relation of Consciousness to Object in Sense Perception by E. B. McGilvary09 - The Relation of Consciousness to Object in Sense Perception by Frank Thilly10 - Consciousness and Object by W. J. E. Woodbridge11 - The New Realism by Morris Raphael Cohen