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MANY criticisms of modern science and of scientific workers to-day relate to their excessive specialisation and the defective sense of values which specialisation is apt to engender. The philosophic views expounded in these three books illuminate the underlying causes of such defects and are of further interest from the picture they give of science as viewed and appraised by the philosophers.
(1) Philosophy of the Sciences: or the Relations between the Departments of Knowledge.
By the Rev. F. R. Tennant. Pp. ix + 191. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932.) 6s. net.
(2) Philosophical Aspects of Modern Science.
By C. E. M. Joad. Pp. 344. (London: George Alien and Unwin, Ltd., 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.
(3) The Approach to Philosophy.
By J. F. Wolfenden. Pp. 236. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1932.) 7s. 6d. net.
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(1) Philosophy of the Sciences: or the Relations between the Departments of Knowledge (2) Philosophical Aspects of Modern Science (3) The Approach to Philosophy . Nature 130, 487–489 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130487a0
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