 Finally, by the late 1970s, Miller gathered a collection of his essays, which were published just before his death under the title "The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays".The philosophy that one finds in "The Paradox of Cause" and such posthumous works as "The Philosophy of History" (1981), "The Midworld of Symbols and Functioning Objects" (1982), and "In Defense of the Psychological" (1983) is a hybrid.Miller consciously sought a middle route through the oppositions of realism and idealism as well as pragmatism and idealism.