Errol E. Harris is John Evans Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.

"Harris has written two or three really distinguished, perhaps great, books up to now; this is his best." — James M. Edie"Like Hegel's, Harris' reading is evolutionary, though Harris has the advantage, and takes it, of the latest science." — Robert Cummings Neville

• PrefaceIntroduction: Contemporary Problems Is Logic Relevant?The Predicament of Modern ManScience as Objective KnowledgeBankruptcy of "the Scientific Outlook"The Whirligig of Time Part I Formal Logic Chapter 1 The Presuppositions of Formal Logic Logic and MetaphysicsFrege's Grundlagen der ArithmatikThe Thesis of this ChapterCommutation, Association and DistributionImplication Chapter 2 Formal Logic and Scientific Method Empiricism and InductionPhysics and "the Interrelatedness of Things"The Methodology of SciencePerception Part II Transcendental Logic Chapter 3 Kant and Fichte Synthesis and Transcendental SubjectivityCoherenceThe Emergence of Dialectic Chapter 4 Husserl's Transcendental Logic Psychologism vs. FormalismInadequacies of Formal LogicThe Task of Transcendental LogicUndeveloped Implications Chapter 5 Dialectical Transcendentalism A Reformulation of Transcendental PhilosophyDialectical Parallel Chapter 6 Transcendental Idealism The Problem of Self-constitutionMerits and Demerits of Transcendentalism Chapter 7 "Independent" and "Nonindependent" Objects Wholes and PartsUnresolved Problems Part III Dialectic Chapter 8 The Logic of System Relations, External and InternalOverlap of TermsOrganization and SystemThe Self-differentiation of SystemSummary and Exemplification Chapter 9 Negation and the Laws of Thought Identity and DifferenceDialectic and the Law of ContradictionCriticisms and Misconceptions Chapter 10 Categories of Perception The Form of the FactsBeing and BecomingQuantity, Number, and Formal Logic Chapter 11 Categories of Reflection Common SenseCommon Sense and Newtonian ScienceContemporary Science Chapter 12 Categories of Systematic Thinking The Concept, Theoretical and ObjectiveConceptual MomentsScientific JudgementScientific Inference (1) Deduction(2) Induction Scientific Advance Chapter 13 Objectivity Three World ViewsRelation of Subjective to ObjectiveTheory and PracticeIdentity of Subjectivity and Objectivity Chapter 14 Value Dialectical Generation of ValueDesire, Purpose, and Objective StandardsDialectic and World ProblemsMan and NatureResidual Questions (1) The freedom and individuality of man(2) The ultimate character of the universal whole(3) Man's relation to universal nature

Errol E. Harris is John Evans Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.

"Harris has written two or three really distinguished, perhaps great, books up to now; this is his best." — James M. Edie"Like Hegel's, Harris' reading is evolutionary, though Harris has the advantage, and takes it, of the latest science." — Robert Cummings Neville

• PrefaceIntroduction: Contemporary Problems Is Logic Relevant?The Predicament of Modern ManScience as Objective KnowledgeBankruptcy of "the Scientific Outlook"The Whirligig of Time Part I Formal Logic Chapter 1 The Presuppositions of Formal Logic Logic and MetaphysicsFrege's Grundlagen der ArithmatikThe Thesis of this ChapterCommutation, Association and DistributionImplication Chapter 2 Formal Logic and Scientific Method Empiricism and InductionPhysics and "the Interrelatedness of Things"The Methodology of SciencePerception Part II Transcendental Logic Chapter 3 Kant and Fichte Synthesis and Transcendental SubjectivityCoherenceThe Emergence of Dialectic Chapter 4 Husserl's Transcendental Logic Psychologism vs. FormalismInadequacies of Formal LogicThe Task of Transcendental LogicUndeveloped Implications Chapter 5 Dialectical Transcendentalism A Reformulation of Transcendental PhilosophyDialectical Parallel Chapter 6 Transcendental Idealism The Problem of Self-constitutionMerits and Demerits of Transcendentalism Chapter 7 "Independent" and "Nonindependent" Objects Wholes and PartsUnresolved Problems Part III Dialectic Chapter 8 The Logic of System Relations, External and InternalOverlap of TermsOrganization and SystemThe Self-differentiation of SystemSummary and Exemplification Chapter 9 Negation and the Laws of Thought Identity and DifferenceDialectic and the Law of ContradictionCriticisms and Misconceptions Chapter 10 Categories of Perception The Form of the FactsBeing and BecomingQuantity, Number, and Formal Logic Chapter 11 Categories of Reflection Common SenseCommon Sense and Newtonian ScienceContemporary Science Chapter 12 Categories of Systematic Thinking The Concept, Theoretical and ObjectiveConceptual MomentsScientific JudgementScientific Inference (1) Deduction(2) Induction Scientific Advance Chapter 13 Objectivity Three World ViewsRelation of Subjective to ObjectiveTheory and PracticeIdentity of Subjectivity and Objectivity Chapter 14 Value Dialectical Generation of ValueDesire, Purpose, and Objective StandardsDialectic and World ProblemsMan and NatureResidual Questions (1) The freedom and individuality of man(2) The ultimate character of the universal whole(3) Man's relation to universal nature

Errol E. Harris is John Evans Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.

"Harris has written two or three really distinguished, perhaps great, books up to now; this is his best." — James M. Edie"Like Hegel's, Harris' reading is evolutionary, though Harris has the advantage, and takes it, of the latest science." — Robert Cummings Neville

• PrefaceIntroduction: Contemporary Problems Is Logic Relevant?The Predicament of Modern ManScience as Objective KnowledgeBankruptcy of "the Scientific Outlook"The Whirligig of Time Part I Formal Logic Chapter 1 The Presuppositions of Formal Logic Logic and MetaphysicsFrege's Grundlagen der ArithmatikThe Thesis of this ChapterCommutation, Association and DistributionImplication Chapter 2 Formal Logic and Scientific Method Empiricism and InductionPhysics and "the Interrelatedness of Things"The Methodology of SciencePerception Part II Transcendental Logic Chapter 3 Kant and Fichte Synthesis and Transcendental SubjectivityCoherenceThe Emergence of Dialectic Chapter 4 Husserl's Transcendental Logic Psychologism vs. FormalismInadequacies of Formal LogicThe Task of Transcendental LogicUndeveloped Implications Chapter 5 Dialectical Transcendentalism A Reformulation of Transcendental PhilosophyDialectical Parallel Chapter 6 Transcendental Idealism The Problem of Self-constitutionMerits and Demerits of Transcendentalism Chapter 7 "Independent" and "Nonindependent" Objects Wholes and PartsUnresolved Problems Part III Dialectic Chapter 8 The Logic of System Relations, External and InternalOverlap of TermsOrganization and SystemThe Self-differentiation of SystemSummary and Exemplification Chapter 9 Negation and the Laws of Thought Identity and DifferenceDialectic and the Law of ContradictionCriticisms and Misconceptions Chapter 10 Categories of Perception The Form of the FactsBeing and BecomingQuantity, Number, and Formal Logic Chapter 11 Categories of Reflection Common SenseCommon Sense and Newtonian ScienceContemporary Science Chapter 12 Categories of Systematic Thinking The Concept, Theoretical and ObjectiveConceptual MomentsScientific JudgementScientific Inference (1) Deduction(2) Induction Scientific Advance Chapter 13 Objectivity Three World ViewsRelation of Subjective to ObjectiveTheory and PracticeIdentity of Subjectivity and Objectivity Chapter 14 Value Dialectical Generation of ValueDesire, Purpose, and Objective StandardsDialectic and World ProblemsMan and NatureResidual Questions (1) The freedom and individuality of man(2) The ultimate character of the universal whole(3) Man's relation to universal nature