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Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of embracing silenceAn author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de... -
Individualism Old and New by John Dewey 9781573926935
RRP: £11.99£8.68America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society. In this penetrating study, he addresses the fear... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144865
RRP: £88.00£67.97The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
Humanity at the Crossroads: Technological Progress, Spiritual Evolution, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Garth J. Hallett 9780761865612
£21.79Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But,... -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
£11.69The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
Introducing Dewey by Professor Paul Fairfield 9781350297845
£19.50This introduction to one of the most influential philosophers in American history examines every major dimension of John Dewey's philosophy, from his early post-Hegelian idealism to pragmatic experimentalism, as well as his views on ethics and political... -
Stoicism Cards: Find Serenity and Strength in a Difficult World by The School of Life 9781915087805
RRP: £15.00£13.31We still pay homage to one of the most relevant philosophies ever devised when we call someone 'stoic' for the way they handle the challenges in their lives with resilience and calm. Originating in Greece around 300 BCE, Stoicism was for many centuries... -
As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology by Michael Jackson
RRP: £30.00£22.82Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: £12.99£9.97From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent... -
Pragmatism: An Introduction by Michael Bacon 9780745646657
RRP: £17.99£16.04Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the... -
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James
RRP: £25.00£19.58A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose... -
The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 by John Dewey 9780809328093
RRP: £48.95£39.88Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian... -
Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty by Colin Koopman 9780231148740
RRP: £84.00£64.56Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself... -
Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris
RRP: £38.00£32.65This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription-the leaving of a trace to be called up later-is what is most fundamental to them. In... -
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: £24.99£21.23Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture... -
Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz
RRP: £17.00£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485435Author Barry SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research by Iddo Tavory
RRP: £18.00£15.40In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that... -
Pragmatism by John R. Shook
RRP: £15.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544610Author John R. ShookFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
RRP: £28.00£21.36The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
Pragmatism: The Classic Writings by Charles Sanders Peirce 9780915145379
RRP: £15.99£13.06A reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.Book InformationISBN 9780915145379Author H. S. ThayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett Publishing Co, IncWeight(grams) 426g -
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty
RRP: £23.95£17.91The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of... -
Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey by Hilary Putnam 9780674967502
RRP: £48.95£38.70Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical "positions" as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag 9780691192161
RRP: £18.99£14.40From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled... -
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique by Joseph Dunne
RRP: £40.00£34.72Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of... -
The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913 Stetson J. Robinson 9783111531946
RRP: £27.50£21.27This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company between 1890 and 1913. Open Court published more of Peirce’s philosophical writings than any other publisher during his lifetime, and played a... -
Cognitive Pragmatism: The Theory of Knowledge in Pragmatic Perspective by Nicholas Rescher 9780822941538
RRP: £31.00£25.65In Cognitive Pragmatism, Nicholas Rescher tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence. In the authoritative voice and calculated manner that we've come to expect from this distinguished philosopher,... -
Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried 9780226745572
£114.98Though many pioneering feminists were deeply influenced by American pragmatism, their contemporary followers have generally ignored that tradition because of its marginalization by a philosophical mainstream intent on neutral analyses devoid of... -
The Classical American Pragmatists and Religion: A Reader by J. Caleb Clanton
RRP: £52.00£42.30The classical American pragmatists are hailed as the country's distinctive philosophical voice. In this volume, J. Caleb Clanton brings to the fore several of the most influential pragmatist thinkers and artfully presents their insight and instruction on... -
Rationality and Cognition: Against Relativism-Pragmatism by Nenad Mis c evic
RRP: £39.00£35.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442657700Author Nenad Mis c evic Format PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 494g -
Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives by Vincent G. Potter
£83.40This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.Book InformationISBN 9780823216154Author Vincent G. PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher... -
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture by Deborah Whitehead
RRP: £81.00£69.61William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism... -
Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World by Giles Gunn
£96.78In this text Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify. Drawing on the work of Williams and... -
The Relevance of Royce by Kelly A. Parker
£52.43This collection represents the rediscovery of Josiah Royce's rich legacy that has occurred over the past decade. The first part presents a series of historical explorations. The second takes up practical extensions of Royce's work, bringing his ideas... -
Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life by Mathew A. Foust
RRP: £54.00£45.95As a virtue, loyalty has an ambiguous place in our thinking about moral judgments. We lauded the loyalty of firefighters who risked their lives to save others on 9/11 while condemning the loyalty of those who perpetrated the catastrophe. Responding to... -
Kant's Doctrine of Virtue by Mark Timmons
RRP: £22.99£20.80Immanuel Kant's final publication in ethics was The Doctrine of Virtue, Part II of the 1797 The Metaphysics of Morals. This text presents Kant's normative ethical theory. This guide is meant to be read alongside Kant's text, combining accessible... -
The Philosophy of the Present by George Herbert Mead 9781573929486
RRP: £11.99£8.68George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book represents Mead's philosophy of experience, so central to... -
Pragmatism`s Evolution – Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce
RRP: £31.00£30.19In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and... -
American Pragmatism: An Introduction by Albert R. Spencer 9781509524723
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this comprehensive introduction, Albert Spencer presents a new story of the origins and development of American pragmatism, from its emergence through the interaction of European and Indigenous American cultures to its contemporary status as a... -
The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present by Robert B. Talisse
RRP: £40.00£36.47The Pragmatism Reader is the essential anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key writing by a leading pragmatist thinker, and represents a distinctively pragmatist approach to a core philosophical problem...