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Rorty and Pragmatism
The Philosopher Responds to His Critics
Inbunden, 1995
652 kr
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A penetrating and illuminating exchange of views between Richard Rorty, a highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher, and seven of his most thoughtful critics, providing new insights into the impact of his work on contemporary American philosophy.Richard Rorty, William R. Kenan …
Continuity of Peirce's Thought
Inbunden, 1998
1148 kr
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A comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce, perhaps America's most far-ranging and original philosopher, which reveals the unity of his complex and influential body of thought. We are still in the early stages of understanding the thought of C. S. Peirce …
Intensity
An Essay in Whiteheadian Ontology
Inbunden, 1998
1188 kr
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A challenging, iconoclastic study that makes clear the underlying unity of Whitehead's vision of the world.This important and provocative book on the work of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) explores how his avowed atomism is consistent with his equally essential commitment to a view of reality …
Elements of Knowledge
Pragmatism, Logic, and Inquiry
Inbunden, 1997
1188 kr
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An original and ingenious introduction to the basic, experimental, trial-and-error process by which we acquire and validate facts and beliefs and through which we gain understanding and truth. Elements of Knowledge is an engaging introductory text, effectively and imaginatively designed to bring a …
Life and Thought of Josiah Royce
Revised and Expanded Edition
Inbunden, 1999
1386 kr
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Infuses the first, highly acclaimed edition with new material that deepens our understanding of this distinguished American philosopher
Life and Thought of Josiah Royce
Revised and Expanded Edition
Häftad, 1999
638 kr
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Infuses the first, highly acclaimed edition with new material that deepens our understanding of this distinguished American philosopher
In Love with Life
Reflections on the Joy of Living and Why We Hate to Die
Av John Lachs
Inbunden, 1998
1306 kr
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In the VANDERBILT LIBRARY OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, a book which reflects on the joy of living and the hatred of death. Written by the author of INTERMEDIATE MAN and THE COST OF COMFORT, it takes the view that delighting in small achievements will help provide courage to face the darker side of life.
Interpreting America
Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought
Av John Ryder
Inbunden, 1999
1188 kr
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More scholarly works on the history of American philosophy have been completed in Russian than in any other language outside of our own; yet most of that body of work has not been translated or studied comprehensively. Consequently, Soviet-era efforts to understand American thought have remained …
Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism
Av Paul B. Thompson, Thomas C. Hilde
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution.Today, most historians, philosophers, political theorists, and scholars of rural America take a dim view of the agrarian ideal that farmers and farming occupy a special moral and political status in society. Agrarian …
Pluralism in Theory and Practice
Richard McKeon and American Philosophy
Av Eugene Garver, Richard Buchanan
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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Unknown to many, unintelligible to some, Richard McKeon (1900-1985) is considered by those familiar with his work to be among the most important of all twentieth-century philosophers. In a career that spanned seven decades, McKeon published eleven books and more than 150 articles, inspired and …
Thinking in the Ruins
Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency
Av Michael P. Hodges, John Lachs
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayana (1863-1952) may never have met or even have studied one another's work, they experienced similar cultural conditions and their thinking took similar shapes. Yet, until now, their respective bodies of work have been examined separately and …
Emphatics
Av Paul Weiss
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative study of the major themes confronting modern metaphysics. The idea of an emphatic has its roots in Weiss's long-developed pluralistic ontology, with …
Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, critical editions, and reevaluations of Dewey's writings. While previous studies of Dewey's work have taken either a historical or a topical focus, …
Habits of Hope
A Pragmatic Theory
Inbunden, 2001
528 kr
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In this original contribution to the American philosophical tradition, Patrick Shade makes a strong argument for the necessity of hope in a cynical world that too often rejects it as foolish. While most accounts of hope situate it in a theological context, Shade presents a theory rooted in the …
William James's "Springs of Delight"
The Return to Life
Av Phil Oliver
Inbunden, 2000
1188 kr
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This enterprising book, written in the spirit of William James, urges our appreciation of the intensely personal character of spiritual transcendence. Phil Oliver's work has important implications for specialists concerned with the Jamesian concept of ""pure experience,"" and it illuminates …
Dewey's Logical Theory
New Studies and Interpretations
Av F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1188 kr
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Despite the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of John Dewey, his work on logical theory has received relatively little attention. Ironically, Dewey's logic was his ""first and last love."" The essays in this collection pay tribute to that love by addressing Dewey's philosophy of logic, from …
William Ernest Hocking Reader
with Commentary
Av John Lachs, D. Micah Hester
Inbunden, 2004
1613 kr
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Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and in his day second only to John Dewey in the breadth of his thinking, is now largely forgotten, and his once-influential writings are out of print. This volume, which combines a rich selection of …
William Ernest Hocking Reader
with Commentary
Av John Lachs, D. Micah Hester
Häftad, 2004
675 kr
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Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and in his day second only to John Dewey in the breadth of his thinking, is now largely forgotten, and his once-influential writings are out of print. This volume, which combines a rich selection of …
Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process and Persons
The Correspondence, 1922-1945
Av Charles Hartshorne, Edgar Sheffield Brightman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1386 kr
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In 1922 Charles Hartshorne, then an aspiring young philosopher, wrote to Edgar Sheffield Brightman, a preeminent philosopher of religion and one of the earliest members of the Boston School of Personalism. For twenty-three subsequent years, the two carried out an unusually rich and intensive …
Unity of William James's Thought
Inbunden, 2002
1188 kr
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No philosopher's writing is more charming that James's. Few philosophers have been subjected to such intense psychological speculation as James. Fewer still have had so many non-philosophical stages to their careers. For all of these reasons, professional philosophers are wary of his philosophy, …
Dewey's Logical Theory
New Studies and Interpretations
Av F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
349 kr
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Despite the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of John Dewey, his work on logical theory has received relatively little attention. Ironically, Dewey's logic was his ""first and last love."" The essays in this collection pay tribute to that love by addressing Dewey's philosophy of logic, from …
Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics
The Philosophy of Chance, Law, and Evolution
Inbunden, 2002
1188 kr
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Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics is the first book devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce's (1839-1914) metaphysics from the perspective of the scientific questions that motivated his thinking. Deftly situating Peirce's often original and pathbreaking ideas within their appropriate …
Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom
John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity
Inbunden, 2003
1613 kr
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John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, Benjamin, Foucault, Derrida and Rorty. In this study, Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's …
Making Morality
Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory
Av Todd Lekan
Inbunden, 2003
1188 kr
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In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice of everyday life. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, Lekan asserts that moral norms are neither timeless truths nor subjective whims, but habits …
Making Morality
Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory
Av Todd Lekan
Häftad, 2003
601 kr
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In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice of everyday life. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, Lekan asserts that moral norms are neither timeless truths nor subjective whims, but habits …
Beyond Realism and Antirealism
John Dewey and the Neopragmatists
Inbunden, 2003
1481 kr
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Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in the late 20th century has been the extraordinary renaissance of pragmatism, marked most notably by the reformulations of the so-called ""neopragmatists"" Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam. With pragmatism offering the allure of …
Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom
John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity
Häftad, 2003
601 kr
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John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, Benjamin, Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty. In this study, Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's …
Divine Beauty
The Aesthetics of Charles Hartshorne
Inbunden, 2004
1481 kr
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Considered by many to be one of the greatest philosophers of religion and metaphysicians of the twentieth century, Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) addressed questions of aesthetics throughout his long career. Yet his efforts in this area are perhaps the most neglected aspect of his extensive and …
