Causing, Perceiving and Believing

Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 "[i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term ''true'', or ''real'', or ''good'', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be...