Abstract

Chronologically ordered readings varying in length from a high of sixty-two pages from J. S. Mill to a low of twenty-two pages from Brentano, with most of the other eleven philosophers included having between thirty-five and forty-five pages each. Comte, Spencer, and Mach are mild surprises whose presence is explained over that of, say, Marx, by the editor's desire to emphasize epistemological, metaphysical, and methodological themes. The bibliographies accompanying the selections are "non-selective"; sometimes they appear positively random. The general introduction is too brief to be of any real use but one can sympathize with the fact that the editor had to say something by way of introduction. In addition to the philosophers mentioned above, selections from Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Peirce, Bradley, and Frege are included.—E. A. R.