Lectures on Metaphysics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

William Hamilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133281400X ISBN 13: 9781332814008

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lectures on Metaphysics

In giving these Lectures to the world, it is due, both to the Author and to his readers, to acknowledge that they do not appear in that state of completeness which might 'have been expected, had they been prepared for publication by the Author himself. As Lectures on Metaphysics, - whether that term be taken in its wider or its stricter. Sense, - they are confessedly imperfect. The Author himself, adopting the Kantian division of the mental faculties into those of Knowledge, Feeling, and Donation, considers the Philosophy of Mind as compre hending, in relation to each of these, the three great subdivisions of Psychology, or the Science of the Phaenomena of Mind; Nomology. Or the Science of its Laws; and Ontology, or the Science of Results and Inferences.1 The term Illetap/zysics, in its strictest sense, is synonymous with the last of these subdivisions; while, in its widest.

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Dr Hamilton comes from a background of clinical and academic general practice. His medical career began in hospital medicine, including 2 ? years as a physician in Malawi, followed by 11 years as a principal (and senior partner) in general practice. He is now a full-time primary care researcher, funded by the NHS. His main research interest is in diagnosis in primary care, particularly that of cancer, and he recently completed three diagnostic studies for the Department of Health on colorectal, prostate and lung cancers. The colorectal results in particular have borne fruit, in that further studies on a tool for earlier diagnosis of this cancer have been funded by the DoH.

Dr Hamilton is a founder member of the NRCI Primary Care Studies Development Group (the umbrella organisation for cancer studies in primary care) and the NICE Guideline Development Group for CFS/ME. He has written over 50 peer-reviewed publications, largely in the field of diagnosis, with cancer being the largest topic. Dr Hamilton also co-edited the 2nd edition of 'Orthopaedics in Primary Care', which involved the key skill of translating orthopaedic surgeons language into English! His writing is not just the dry format of research papers: he has written editorials for the BMJ and BJGP, lighter pieces for the back pages of the BJGP and a lengthy piece on constipation for BMJ learning!

As well as his medical qualifications he has a certificate in literature (with merit!) from the University of Exeter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 133281400X
• ISBN 13: 9781332814008
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 748