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Pragmatist Ethics
A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters
Häftad, 2022
429 kr
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Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. …
Entanglements
A System of Philosophy
Häftad, 2017
504 kr
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Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen …
Another white Man's Burden
Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire
Häftad, 2019
597 kr
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Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce's ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.Winner of the 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought presented by the Josiah Royce Society Another white Man's Burden performs a case study of Josiah Royce's …
Another white Man's Burden
Josiah Royce's Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire
Inbunden, 2018
1286 kr
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Demonstrates the extent to which Josiah Royce's ideas about race were motivated explicitly in terms of imperial conquest.Winner of the 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought presented by the Josiah Royce Society Another white Man's Burden performs a case study of Josiah Royce's …
Partial Truths and Our Common Future
A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value
Inbunden, 2018
1286 kr
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Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best …
Partial Truths and Our Common Future
A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value
Häftad, 2019
597 kr
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Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best …
Real Metaphysical Club
The Philosophers, Their Debates, and Selected Writings from 1870 to 1885
Av Frank X. Ryan, Brian E. Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
639 kr
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A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members' philosophical writings and four critical essays.The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America's distinctively original philosophy, was refined and …
Pragmatism Applied
William James and the Challenges of Contemporary Life
Av Clifford S. Stagoll, Michael P. Levine
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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Illustrates how William James's philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.William James, one of America's most original philosophers and psychologists, was concerned above all with the manner in which philosophy might help people to cope with the vicissitudes …
Politics of Paradigms
Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War “Struggle for Men’s Minds”
Häftad, 2020
667 kr
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Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.The Politics of Paradigms shows that America's most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions …
Life as Insinuation
George Santayana's Hermeneutics of Finite Life and Human Self
Häftad, 2020
399 kr
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A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana's thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.In this book, Katarzyna Kremplewska offers a thorough analysis of Santayana's conception of human self, viewed as part of his larger philosophy of life. Santayana emerges as an author of a provocative …
Hyperthematics
The Logic of Value
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.In this innovative work, Marc M. Anderson presents an account of value and value creation, which both defines value and introduces a method to manipulate value practically. Using this new …
American Aesthetics
Theory and Practice
Av Walter B. Gulick, Gary Slater
Inbunden, 2020
1286 kr
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Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American …
American Aesthetics
Theory and Practice
Av Walter B. Gulick, Gary Slater
Häftad, 2021
394 kr
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Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American …
John Dewey's Later Logical Theory
Inbunden, 2020
1595 kr
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A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an …
John Dewey's Later Logical Theory
Häftad, 2021
619 kr
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A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an …
Critical Margolis
Av Joseph Margolis, Russell Pryba
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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This critical reader covers Joseph Margolis's controversial views of mind, truth, science, and reality, along with his revolutionary theories about culture, art, language, personhood, and morality.Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor …
Critical Margolis
Av Joseph Margolis, Russell Pryba
Häftad, 2022
517 kr
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This critical reader covers Joseph Margolis's controversial views of mind, truth, science, and reality, along with his revolutionary theories about culture, art, language, personhood, and morality.Pragmatism's revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor …
Rorty-Habermas Debate
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
Häftad, 2022
449 kr
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Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance …
Rorty-Habermas Debate
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance …
Humanistic Background of Science
Av Philipp Frank, George A. Reisch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1246 kr
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The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last …
Humanistic Background of Science
Av Philipp Frank, George A. Reisch m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
634 kr
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The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Philipp Frank (1884–1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last …
Pragmatist Ethics
A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. …
Cultural Power of Personal Objects
Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives
Häftad, 2022
504 kr
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Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they …
Cultural Power of Personal Objects
Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they …
Human Landscapes
Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology
Inbunden, 2022
1286 kr
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The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.Human Landscapes works out a pragmatist anthropology which the Classical Pragmatists never put together in a comprehensive form-despite …
Human Landscapes
Contributions to a Pragmatist Anthropology
Häftad, 2022
453 kr
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The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.Human Landscapes works out a pragmatist anthropology which the Classical Pragmatists never put together in a comprehensive form-despite …
Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art
Häftad, 2022
371 kr
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A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us …
Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art
Inbunden, 2022
1286 kr
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A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us …
Threefold Struggle
Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn
Inbunden, 2022
1286 kr
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Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic …
Threefold Struggle
Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn
Häftad, 2023
487 kr
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Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic …
