An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method

THIS book, by two American teachers of philosophy, helps to show how far the best representatives of logic in modern universities have travelled from the Aristotelian tradition which formerly prevailed. In an earlier generation Mill and Stanley Jevons, and later Neville Keynes, did much for the reshaping of the old formal logic, and for the development of an inductive logic which brought the subject into more vital relation with the methods of scientific investigation. In more recent times, logical theory has made progress in different directions, so that for educational purposes an eclectic treatment of the whole subject is desirable. Such a treatment is accomplished in this admirable book.An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method.By Morris R. Cohen Ernest Nagel. Pp. xii + 467. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 15s. net.