Starbuck, E. D.: The Psychology of Religion.

CHAPTER V, THE PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM OF SCIENCE.[434:A]

Plato: Republic, Book VII, 526 ff. Translations by Jowett and Vaughan. Phaedo, 96 ff. Translation by Jowett.

Berkeley: Alciphron, the Fourth Dialogue. Siris, especially 234-264. (On the failure of the scientist to grasp the deeper truth respecting causes and substances.)

Descartes: Discourse on Method. Translation by Veitch.

Spinoza: On the Improvement of the Understanding. Translation by Elwes.

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason—Transcendental Æsthetic and Transcendental Analytic. Translation by Max Müller. (Studies of the Method of Science.)


Ward, James: Naturalism and Agnosticism. (Full but clear account of recent development of natural science, and criticism of its use as philosophy.)

Mach, Ernst: Science of Mechanics. (Historical and methodological.)