Varieties of scientific experience : emotive aims in scientific hypotheses / Lewis S. Feuer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Noumenalism and Einstein's argument for the existence of God -- Teleological principles in science -- God, guilt, and logic: the psychological basis of the ontological argument -- Sociological aspects of the relation between language and philosophy -- The principle of simplicity -- The Genetic fallacy re-examined -- The Reasoning of Holocaust theology -- Confronting evil and its unreason -- The Philosophical method of Arthur O. Lovejoy: critical realism and pscyhoanalytical realism -- Lawless sensations and categorial defenses: the unconscious sources of Kant's philosophy -- The Dream of Benedict de Spinoza -- The dreams of Descartes -- Anxiety and philosophy: the case of Descartes -- Spinoza's thought and modern perplexities: its American career -- John Stuart Mill as a sociologist: the unwritten ethology -- The Sociobiological theory of Jewish intellectual achievement: a sociological critique -- Causality in the social sciences.