Thursday, August 25, 1960
UNC NEWS
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Late UNC Prof s Study
Published Posthumously
The University of Chicago
Press published on August 2 a
book entitled "Philosophical
Systems: A Catagorial Analy
sis" by the late Everett W. Hall,
Kenan Professor of Philosophy
aid Chairman of the UNC Phi
losophy Department.
The book is an astute ap
praisal of the seemingly endless
debate among diverse philoso
phical systems by a philosopher
who, though using recently de
veloped techniques of linguistic
analysis, considers himself a
metaphysician and contends that
metaphysics is present in the
analytic movement and indeed
is unavoidable in any general
view of human knowledge.
Hall vigorously maintains that
philosophical disputes, while
neither empirical nor logical,
are genuine theoretical contro
versiesyet he finds a serious
problem in the inability of rival
philosophers to talk with one
another with understanding and
fairness when their differences
affect their basic, categorial
orientations.
Describing his study as an es
say in comparative philosophy,
the author objectively examines
several philosophical viewpoints
to see what can be said for each
of them and whether it is pos
sible to adjudicate their var
ious claims. He first offers a
definition of a philosophical
"system" and describes- the
marks of categorial commit
ment. He then analyzes the
problems raised by the ques
tions, "Is a philosophical "sys
tem without categorial commit-
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EVERETT WrilALL
. . . Late Kenan Prof.
ment possible?" "Is a self-contained
system possible?" "Aje
there neutral, indubitable cate
gories available to all systems?"
On the basis of this investiga
tion, Hall proposes a method
called "categorial analysis" as
a means of achieving a settle
ment of philosophical disputes.
Though his proposal demands
turning to the categories of
everyday speech, the author's
approach is unique in that it
classifies him neither with the
older school of common-sense
realism nor with the newer
movement intent on analyzing
ordinary language for its own
sake.
Hall has employed categorial
analysis in his other philosophi
cal writings. His "What is
Value?" (1952) is a most not
able example of the method.
Hall died on June 17 of this
year. He came to the Univer
sity of North Carolina in 1952
from The State University of
Iowa where he had been Chair
man of the Department of Phi
losophy for twelve years. In
1958-59 he was Visiting Lec
turer at Kyoto University in
Japan.
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