Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare: Selected Essays and Chapters from Six Decades

When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated — particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein — and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I w...