Volume 33, Number 5 · March 27, 1986
Under Construction
By Carol Fleisher Feldman, Jerome S. Bruner
Of Mind and Other Matters
by Nelson Goodman
Harvard University Press, 210 pp., $17.50
A little over half a century ago philosophers and psychologists at Harvard shared a single department housed in Emerson Hall, its ground-floor corridor presided over by a seated, slightly frowning Ralph Waldo Emerson in bronze. The psychologists by then could scarcely wait to be free of their old-fashioned colleagues. That came soon enough. For what had psychology, armed with its shiny new tools of empirical inquiry, to do with metaphysics? Did one need philosophical speculation to study sensation, perception, and behavior?
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