Date of Award
8-1972
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Francis J. Collingwood
Second Advisor
Joseph J. O'Malley
Third Advisor
Thomas L. Prendergast
Fourth Advisor
Lee C. Rice
Fifth Advisor
Denis D. Savage
Abstract
Prescinding from the story of the propagation and the mutation of Bridgman's thought at the hands of his several followers, this dissertation endeavors to expose and analyze Bridgman's system of thought itself. As the title indicates, this dissertation moreover seeks to isolate the categorical or the most pervasive moments of Bridgman's thought. In short, we set as our task the isolation of the metaphysic underlying Bridgman's thought. This metaphysic, more frequently tacit than acknowledged, will be shown to subsume not only the major moments of Bridgman's thinking in the process of the articulation of operational analysis, but also to constitute the very source of the same operational analysis.