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42 produkter
Ethical Habits
A Peircean Perspective
Inbunden, 2016
1214 kr
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Previous attempts to set up an Ethics based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce have generally begun and ended with the 1898 lecture, Philosophy and the Conduct of Life. It was in that lecture that Peirce famously argued that Theory and Practice should be kept distinct. In Ethical Habits: A …
Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism
Studies, Polemics, Interpretations
Inbunden, 2015
1214 kr
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Richard Rorty is perhaps the most famous American philosopher internationally, and his later, neopragmatist philosophy is decidedly one of his most commented upon. Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism proposes different themes in order to delve into the …
Recovering Integrity
Moral Thought in American Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2015
1285 kr
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The world of moral theory finds no place for the idea of integrity. The natural intellectual home of the idea of integrity is the American pragmatist tradition. Pragmatism makes possible an account of integrity that enables it to become philosophically central in thinking about morality. The idea …
Peirce's Empiricism
Its Roots and Its Originality
Inbunden, 2016
1569 kr
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Widely praised as a founder of modern semiotics and of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) spent over forty years developing a philosophical system that addresses the fundamental problems of Western metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory. Although never …
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy
The Religious Dimension of Experience
Inbunden, 2017
1285 kr
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Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of Experience examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its relationship to key figures in classical American Philosophy, in particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee. Few scholars have taken sufficient note …
American Philosopher
Interviews on the Meaning of Life and Truth
Inbunden, 2015
1666 kr
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Over the course of nearly a decade, Phillip McReynolds conducted a series of interviews with prominent American philosophers including, among others, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Richard Bernstein, Bruce Wilshire, John Lachs, Richard Shusterman, and Crispin Sartwell. The American …
Death and Finitude
Toward a Pragmatic Transcendental Anthropology of Human Limits and Mortality
Inbunden, 2016
1214 kr
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Death and Finitude offers an examination and defense of a pragmatic transcendental anthropology applicable to the concepts of limit, finitude, and mortality that are constitutive of human life as we know it. Sami Pihlström develops a special kind of philosophical anthropology—a pragmatic yet …
Emerson's Metaphysics
A Song of Laws and Causes
Av Joseph Urbas
Häftad, 2019
575 kr
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This book gives the first complete, fully historicized account of Emerson's metaphysics of cause and effect and its foundational position in his philosophy as a whole. Urbas tells the story of the making of a metaphysician and in so doing breaks with the postmodern, anti-metaphysical readings that …
Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
Häftad, 2018
532 kr
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Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich complexity of immediate experience, the …
Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy
Thinking the Plural
Inbunden, 2016
1356 kr
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Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. Collecting essays written explicitly for the …
Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy
Thinking the Plural
Häftad, 2019
618 kr
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Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. Collecting essays written explicitly for the …
Peirce and Religion
Knowledge, Transformation, and the Reality of God
Av Roger Ward
Inbunden, 2018
1285 kr
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Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the …
Peirce and Religion
Knowledge, Transformation, and the Reality of God
Av Roger Ward
Häftad, 2020
547 kr
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Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the …
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition
Häftad, 2022
518 kr
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Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition, edited by Douglas R. Hochstetler, analyzes the relationship between endurance sports—such as running, cycling, and swimming–and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors enter into dialogue with writers such as Ralph …
Loving Immigrants in America
An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction
Häftad, 2019
575 kr
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At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this …
Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James
Markings and Marginalia from the Harvard Library Collection
Inbunden, 2019
1569 kr
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While a reconstruction of the whole of William James’s personal library isn’t feasible, there are significant portions of it that reside within the Harvard University Library system and this book is a partial reconstruction of their story. Reconstructing the Personal Library of William James offers …
Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics
Av John Owens
Häftad, 2021
518 kr
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Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and …
Ontology after Philosophical Psychology
The Continuity of Consciousness in William James's Philosophy of Mind
Inbunden, 2019
1285 kr
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Ontology after Philosophical Psychology addresses the question of William James’s continuity of consciousness, with a view to its possible actualizations. In particular, Michela Bella critically delineates James's discourse. In the wake of Darwin's theory of evolution at the end of the nineteenth …
Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Häftad, 2021
518 kr
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This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, “Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to mention a nihilist).” Each of the …
Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
1569 kr
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This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as …
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
Häftad, 2019
717 kr
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Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into …
Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience
Av Kelly A. Parker, Heather E. Keith
Inbunden, 2019
1285 kr
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The essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience offer a survey of the ways that “resilience” is becoming a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications. As a concept with multiple …
Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience
A Reconstruction
Av Tobias Timm
Inbunden, 2019
1214 kr
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Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meaningfully about experience due to his postmodern inclination to associate experience with a belief in objectivity and foundational truths. Richard Rorty and the Problem of Postmodern Experience: A …
Semiotic Ontology of Motherhood
Intersectional Bodies as Spaces of Transformative Resistance
Av Aisha Raees, John J. Kaag m. fl.
Inbunden, 2028
1128 kr
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With the help of C. S. Peirce’s semiotics, motherhood can be conceived as an immigrant identity: both involve a culturally and internally disruptive transition.Using Peirce’s idea that memory constructs a semiotic picture of “the self,” Aisha Raees provides an exegesis of Peirce’s work and builds a …
Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Melioristic Case Studies
Inbunden, 2022
1143 kr
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In Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion: Melioristic Case Studies, Ulf Zackariasson argues for the fruitfulness of pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the contemporary philosophy of religion. Zackariasson first outlines a version of pragmatic …
Semiotic Theory of Community
Josiah Royce's Absolute Pragmatism
Inbunden, 2023
1072 kr
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This book shows the unity and novelty of Josiah Royce’s philosophy, one that he called an Absolute Pragmatism. The development of Royce’s thought led him to propose a synthetic-semiotic view of community that constitutes a unique and unparalleled metaphysical vision in a world in great need of …
Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion
Inbunden, 2023
1214 kr
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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist investigations of the human search for meaning, by emphasizing what may be considered two closely …
Richard Shusterman's Somaesthetics
Philosophy and Aesthetics
Av Alexander Kremer, John J. Kaag m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1214 kr
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Against the background of selected themes in contemporary philosophy, this book argues that Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics is not only an aesthetics but, first of all, it is a philosophy.The book schematically outlines the philosophical background of pragmatism and of Shusterman's views, which …
Feminist Pragmatism and Social Rights
From Jane Addams to Frances Perkins
Av Judy D. Whipps, John J. Kaag m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1427 kr
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In an exploration of the little-told legacy of early feminist pragmatists who pioneered social rights in America, Feminist Pragmatism and Social Rights delves into the transformative efforts of trailblazing figures, including Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Grace Abbott, Mary Church …
Reinvention of Idealism
John William Miller and Other Navigators of the Critical Turn in American Philosophy
Av Katie Terezakis, John J. Kaag
Inbunden, 2026
1214 kr
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To understand the role Kant’s critical idealism has played in the development of American philosophies, one must understand why the classical American pragmatists, different realists, and other anti-ideal theorists reject Kant’s critical project, no less than how idealism has been evolving in …
