4 Carlton Gardens
May 24, 1915.
CONTENTS
| [PART I] | ||
| INTRODUCTORY | ||
| [LECTURE I] | ||
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Introductory: Metaphysics and the “Plain Man” | [3] |
| II. | “Inevitable” Beliefs and Common Sense | [13] |
| III. | The Material of the Present Argument for Theism: the Character of the Theism to be established | [17] |
| IV. | What the Argument is not. Some of its Limitations | [23] |
| [LECTURE II] | ||
| I. | Design and Selection | [28] |
| II. | Argument from Values. The Cognitive and the Causal Series | [44] |
| PART II | ||
| ÆSTHETIC AND ETHICAL VALUES | ||
| [LECTURE III] | ||
| ÆSTHETIC AND THEISM | ||
| I. | Æsthetic described | [55] |
| II. | Whence comes it? | [58] |
| III. | Values and the Higher Emotions | [63] |
| IV. | Natural Beauty | [77] |
| V. | Æsthetic of History | [81] |
| [LECTURE IV] | ||
| ETHICS AND THEISM | ||
| I. | Ethics described | [95] |
| II. | Egoism, Altruism, and Selection | [98] |
| III. | Selection and the Higher Morality | [107] |
| IV. | Same subject continued | [119] |
| V. | Theism and the Collision of Ends | [122] |
| PART III | ||
| INTELLECTUAL VALUES | ||
| [LECTURE V] | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO PART III | ||
| I. | Retrospect | [133] |
| II. | Reason and Causation | [134] |
| III. | Leslie Stephen, and Locke’s Aphorism | [136] |
| IV. | Reason and Empirical Agnosticism | [145] |
| [LECTURE VI] | ||
| PERCEPTION, COMMON SENSE, AND SCIENCE | ||
| I. | Common Sense and the External World | [149] |
| II. | Science and the External World | [153] |
| III. | Primary and Secondary Qualities | [156] |
| IV. | Perception as a Causal Series | [160] |
| V. | Perception as a Cognitive Act | [165] |
| VI. | An Irresistible Assumption | [170] |
| [LECTURE VII] | ||
| PROBABILITY, CALCULABLE AND INTUITIVE | ||
| I. | Mathematicians and Probability | [175] |
| II. | Calculable Probability | [178] |
| III. | Intuitive Probability | [189] |
| [LECTURE VIII] | ||
| UNIFORMITY AND CAUSATION | ||
| I. | Habit, Expectation, Induction | [192] |
| II. | Regularity, Causation | [195] |
| III. | The Principle of Negligibility | [199] |
| IV. | Causation and Foreknowledge | [207] |
| [LECTURE IX] | ||
| TENDENCIES OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF | ||
| I. | From Beliefs that we must hold toBeliefs that we are inclined to hold | [217] |
| II. | Atomism. Beliefs of Conservation | [220] |
| III. | Epilogue | [238] |
| PART IV | ||
| SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION | ||
| [LECTURE X] | ||
| I. | Humanism and Theism | [247] |
| II. | The Doctrine of Congruity | [249] |
| III. | Is this Systematic Philosophy? | [261] |
| IV. | Conclusion | [268] |
[The paragraph headings in this Table of Contents are not designed to give more than a very imperfect suggestion of the subjects discussed. I have put them in for the convenience of those who, having read the book, wish to refer back to some particular passage. The headings do not appear in the text.]