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THE title of this modest little volume is a master piece of understatement. The contents are immeasurably richer than the word ‘explanation' would suggest. Prof. C. D. Broad leads off with some characteristically stimulating observations upon methods in speculative philosophy. (Actually, his address came in the middle of the conference, not at the beginning.) The symposia proper deal with historical explanation, truth by convention, the psychological study of mental acts or dispositions, and the problem of guilt.
Aristotelian Society
Supplementary Volume 21 : Explanation in History and Philosophy. The Symposia read at the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association at Cambridge, July 4th–6th, 1947. Pp. iv + 218. (London : Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1947.) 21s. net.
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RAWLINS, F. Aristotelian Society. Nature 161, 665 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161665b0
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