Pragmatism category: 176 books
The Hidden God
Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The Hidden God revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought. By reaching as far back as the Calvinist arguments of the American Puritans and their struggle to know a "hidden God," this book brings American...
A Search for Unity in Diversity
The 'Permanent Hegelian Deposit' in the Philosophy of John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
A Search for Unity in Diversity examines the traditional readings of John Dewey's relationship to Hegel and demonstrates that Dewey's later pragmatism was a development of the historicist/humanistic Hegel, rather than a turning away from Hegelian philosophy. Good argues that Dewey drew upon resources...
Pragmatism with Purpose
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.
Truth, Rationality, and Pragmatism
Themes from Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2002
Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913), often described as the founder of pragmatism. These themes concern how we are able to investigate the world rationally; and, as Hookway shows, the ideas introduced...
Democratic Hope
Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition." In Democratic Hope, Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought in the work of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Peirce, testing in good pragmatic fashion the...
Wittgenstein and Pragmatism
On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism in
Wittgenstein’s work On Certainty, through a comparison with the
pragmatist tradition as expressed by its founding fathers Charles S. Peirce
and William James. It also describes Wittgenstein’s first encounters with
pragmatism...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport explores the philosophical significance of sport – the phenomenological experience, the training, coaching, and the competition – from a uniquely pragmatic angle of vision. The philosophical insights of John Dewey, William James, C.S. Peirce, Jane Addams,...
American Pragmatism
A Religious Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Hamner seeks to discover what makes pragmatism uniquely American. She argues that the inextricably American character of pragmatism of such figures as C.S. Peirce and William James lies in its often understated affirmation of America as a uniquely religious country with a God-given mission and populated by God-fearing citizens.
Recovering Integrity
Moral Thought in American Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
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...
Pragmatic Fashions
Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a...
Two Existential Theories of Knowledge
Epistemic Pragmatism and Contextualism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
In chapter 1 of this book, I explore four paradigms of justification: epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (which I call the traditional paradigms) and pragmatism and contextualism (the existential paradigms). I argue that the existential paradigms are pragmatically superior. In chapter 2, I...
The Task of Utopia
A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
At their best, both American pragmatism and utopianism are about hope. Both encourage people to think about the future as a guide to understanding the past and forming the present. Just as pragmatism has often been misunderstood as valueless instrumentalism, utopianism has been limited to dreams of...
Preludes to Pragmatism
Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism
by Cheryl Misak
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. This ambitious new account identifies the connections between traditional American pragmatism and contemporary philosophy and argues...