Table of Contents

Introduction "Science, Materialism and Idealism" 1. The Place of Our Age in the History of Civilization 2. Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man 3. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 4. Critical Review of Berkeley's Idealism Pragmaticism: A Philosophy of Science 5. The Fixation of Belief 6. How to Make Our Ideas Clear 7. Notes on Positivism 8. The Architecture of Theories 9. The Doctrine of Necessity 10. What Pragmatism Is 11. Issues of Pragmaticism Lessons from the History of Scientific Thought 12. Lessons of the History of Science 13. Lowell Lectures on the History of Science (1892) 14. Kepler 15. Conclusion of the History of Science Lectures 16. The Nineteenth Century: Notes 17. The Century's Great Men in Science 18. "Letters to Samuel P. Langley, and "Hume on Miracles and Laws of Nature" 19. Research and Teaching in Physics 20. Definition and Function of a University 21. Logic and a Liberal Education 22. Logic of Mathematics in Relation to Education Science and Religion 23. Science and Immortality The Breakdown of the Mechanical Philosophy The Marriage of Religion and Science What Is Christian Faith? A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God 24. Letters to Lady Welby Bibliographical Note Index