Contents
Preface
Translator's Notes
Acknowledgements
I - Introductory Essays
Life and Works of Giovanni Vailati
Reflections on Vailati's Pragmatism
II - Giovanni Vailati: Selected Essays
1 - On the importance of research regarding the History of Science
2 - The Deductive Method as an Instrument of Research
3 - Some Observations on the Questions of Words in the History of Science and Culture
4 - The Difficulties Involved in a Rational Classification of the Sciences
5 - On the Logical Import of the Classification of Mental Facts Proposed by Franz Brentano
6 - On the Applicability of the Concepts of Cause and Effect in Historcial Sciences
7 - The Aristotelian Theory of Definition
8 - The Most Recent Definition of Mathematics
9 - On the Meaning of the Difference Between Axioms and Postulates in Greek Geometry
10 - The Art of Asking Questions
11 - The Distinction Between Knowledge and Will
12 - Pragmatism and Mathematical Logic
13 - A Study of Platonic Terminology
14 - The Attack on Distinctions
15 - On Material Representations of Deductive Processes
16 - The Grammar of Algebra
17 - Language as an Obstacle to the Elimination of Illusory Contrasts
18 - The Origins and Fundamental Idea of Pragmatism
19 - Pragmatism and the Various Ways of Saying Nothing
III - A Selected Bibliography
References
Index