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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GLASGOW
 
TITLEAUTHORDATEVOLUMEYEARPAGE
      
VOLUME 1     
      
Some Limits of MeasurementProfessor R V Jones23 January 1963119633
PoliticsProfessor Allen M Potter26 April 19631196320
The Metaphysics of the Atom BombJoseph Schorstein, FRCS5 February 196211962 
The Origin of LifeWilliam W Fletcher,BSc, PhD, FLS, MIBiol1 February 196411964 
Congenital MalformationsPaul Bacsich 1 62
Nature’s Interpreters in the 1890sDavid Irwin 1 80
Inaugural Lecture: The Nature of EconomicsProfessor K J W Alexander22/11/631196390
The Concept of Evil in the Philosophy of Karl JaspersGeraint V Jones, MA, BLitt 1 102
      
      
VOLUME 2 – 1965     
      
Tyranny of the ExpertRitchie Calder, CBE, MA19 February 1964219641
Inaugural Lecture: Is There a Science of Psychology?Professor Gustav Jahoda1 May 19642196410
Two Ways of ThinkingKarl M Abenheimer, FBPsS 2 23
Why Teach Science?John A Lenahan, MSc, PhD, AMIEE, FInstP11 March 19642196435
The Problems of Food ScienceProfessor John Hawthorn 2 42
The Molecule: The Evolution of a ConceptJ C Speakman, MSc, PhD, DSc 2 55
The City and the American Way of LifeJ Wreford Watson, MA, PhD, FRS 2 75
The Early Camus – a ReconsiderationIan H Walker 2 91
Infancy – A Study in Philosophical PsychologyJames K Feibleman 2 104
Marc Bloch and the Historian’s CraftJohn Larner 2 123
Dr Plumb on HistoryJohn Sanderson 2 133
      
      
VOLUME 3 -1966     
      
The Origin of the ConstellationsMichael W Ovenden, MA, BSc, PhD, FRAS, FRSE20 January 1965319651
Domestic Life in SardiniaProfessor M F M Meiklejohn3 February 19653196519
Refrigeration Below 1 KelvinProfessor E Mendoza3 March 19653196531
Science, Religion and TheologyTrant B Luard 3 38
Sources and Estuaries of AbstractionManfred Gordon, DSc, FRSE10 May 19653196546
The Logic of Value ConflictsJohn de Lucca 3 62
Joseph Lister – Surgeon-BiologistSir Charles Illingworth6 October 19653196573
Ambiguous CreationJohn A M Rillie 3 82
Theosophy and the Age of ScienceJ L Shank 3 95
Shipbuilding TodaySir William Lithgow, Bt2 February 196631966106
Significance of the Novel in French-Speaking Black AfricaAnthony C Brench 3 116
On Certain Statistical Features of the Pauline EpistlesM Levison, A Q Morton and W C Wake 3 129
Review – Man, the Universe, and Mind by P A MoritzL Pompa 3 149
      
Volume 4 – 1967     
      
A Century of MendelismJohn Johnston17 November 1965419651
The Scottish Car Industry, Past and PresentSarah C Orr19 January 19664196610
Durrenmatt’s Detective StoriesBernard Ashbrook 4 17
A Sense of the WorldBarbara Bray 4 30
Jung’s ‘Meaningful Coincidences’Gustav Jahoda 4 35
The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow: A Sesquincentennial AddressAndrew Kent19 November 19524195243
Estuaries – for Use or Ornament?Robert L Drew 4 51
Review – Versuch Uber das Denken by Felix GrayeffMagda King 4 65
Review – An Introduction to Ethics by J D MabbottL Pompa 4 70
Indispensable FallacyGeorge Wyllie 4 73
Rules of the GameT C Goodrich 4 82
Rilke and NietzscheKarl M Abenheimer 4 95
The Exploration of the MoonA E Roy16 February 196641966107
An Interpretation of the World of KafkaGeraint V Jones 4 118
Does Toynbee need Two Theories of History?Berkley B Eddins 4 137
Review – The Truth about Cancer by Charles S CameronGodfrey Caesar 4 144
Review – The Scientific Approach by Professor J T DaviesG Wyllie 4 145
Review – Freedom of the Individual by Stuart HampshireGeraint V Jones 4 146
Review – Loneliness: A Study of the Human Condition by Ethel ManningB W P Wells 4 149
Review – Equality by John WilsonJohn J Jenkins 4 150
Review – Theory of Knowledge by A D WoozleyL Pompa 4 154
      
      
VOLUME 5 – 1968     
      
Reflections on PunishmentAnne Grace Mojtabai 5 1
Man, Science and Natural HistoryR A Crowson 5 18
Thoughts on Historical Determinism and NecessityProfessor Alec Nove 5 24
Scottish Influences on Contemporary American PhilosphyKeith Lehrer4 February 19675196734
Reid’s Critique of Hume’s Moral TheoryNicholas Capaldi 5 43
Lord Kelvin, the Young Professor ( Seventh Kelvin Lecture)Andrew Kent4 October 19675196947
University of the AirBrian Jackson 5 54
Communication with Other Worlds in FictionJames R Knowlson 5 61
Review: The Triumph of the Therapeutic. Uses of Faith after Freud by Philip RieffKark M Abenheimer 5 75
Review: Tradition und Transformation der Modalitat by Ingetrud PapeMagda King 5 78
Review: Ideologie und Warheit. Zur Kritik der Politischen Vernunft by Herman ZeltnerMagda King 5 78
Review: Natural Law by A P d’EntrevesJohn J Jenkins 5 79
Review: Toward a New Morality by Gershon G RosenstockJohn J Jenkins 5 79
Review: The Philosophy of Sartre by Mary WarnockI H Walker 5 81
Modelling Physical RealityProfessor D F Lawden6 February 19685196887
On Wisdom and the Limits to Deductive SystemsGerrit Daams 5 105
Robbe-Grillet: Yes…No…ProbablyPeter Sharratt 5 112
Moral Censorship and the LawElspeth Attwooll 5 129
John Anderson’s Rain GaugeC G Wood 5 138
Pesticides and the EnvironmentWilliam W Fletcher 5 151
Review: The New Dialogue Between Philosophy and Theology by James Alfred MartinR W Hepburn 5 160
Review: Kant’s Theory of Time by Sadik J Al-AzmI H Walker 5 161
Review: Intentionality, Minds and Perception. Ed. Hector-Neri CastanedaL Pompa 5 163
Review: George Berkeley: A Reappraisal by A D RitchieJ Houston 5 164

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