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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£8.92America'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... -
Return to Reason by Stephen Toulmin 9780674012356
RRP: £28.95£22.90The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the ravages of global conflict and a Cold War that divided the world's... -
Humanity at the Crossroads: Technological Progress, Spiritual Evolution, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Garth J. Hallett 9780761865612
RRP: £25.00£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
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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. ... -
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£10.93Apologies 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 -
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... -
Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy by Philip Kitcher 9780199899555
RRP: £68.00£47.57Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired... -
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780198709374
£34.23Cheryl 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... -
Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatic Reconstruction of Epistemology by Susan Haack 9781591026891
RRP: £16.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591026891Author Susan HaackFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g -
As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology by Michael Jackson
RRP: £30.00£23.29Philosophy 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... -
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag 9780374537203
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537203Author John KaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 250g -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag 9780691192161
RRP: £18.99£15.12From 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... -
Pragmatism: An Introduction 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... -
Practical Wisdom by Barry Schwartz
RRP: £17.00£10.36Apologies 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)... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: £12.99£9.57From 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... -
Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert B. Talisse 9780826498588
£25.45This is a student's guide to the historical context, key thinkers and central themes of pragmatism, a concept central to American philosophy.The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy the insights and... -
Consequences Of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty 9780816610648
RRP: £20.99£18.37Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified... -
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty
RRP: £23.95£17.44The 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: The Classic Writings by Charles Sanders Peirce 9780915145379
RRP: £15.99£13.36A 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 -
Introducing Dewey by Professor Paul Fairfield 9781350297845
£19.91This 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... -
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James
RRP: £25.00£19.55A 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 Ideal and the Real: Studies in Pragmatism by Marco Stango
RRP: £15.99£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869774126Author Marco StangoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International -
Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris
RRP: £33.00£29.05This 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... -
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty by Richard Rorty 9780804746182
RRP: £20.99£16.10This volume collects a number of important and revealing interviews with Richard Rorty, spanning more than two decades of his public intellectual commentary, engagement, and criticism. In colloquial language, Rorty discusses the relevance and... -
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry by Seth J Gillihan, PH
RRP: £15.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939754851Author Seth GillihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea Press -
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique by Joseph Dunne
RRP: £35.00£31.14Back 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... -
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: £22.99£20.01Many 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... -
William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism by H. G. Callaway 9781793653147
RRP: £77.00£70.88This book is a critical edition of William James's Essays in Radical Empiricism. The text has been annotated to explain and expand on James's references and to briefly develop points of criticism. The editor has added a new, critical Introduction, an... -
Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction by Robert Sinclair 9781793618207
RRP: £77.00£67.62W. V. Quine's occasional references to his 'pragmatism' have often been interpreted as suggesting a possible link to the American Pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey. Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction argues that the... -
George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century by F. Thomas Burke 9781498556507
RRP: £45.00£39.49This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of... -
Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism: A Dialogue on Hope, the Philosophy of Race, and the Spiritual Blues by Jacob L. Goodson 9781498539982
RRP: £30.00£26.68Prophetic pragmatism is a gritty philosophical framework that undergirds the intellectual and political work done by those who seek to overcome despair, dogmatism, and oppression. It seeks to unite one’s intellectual vocation and one’s duty to fight for... -
From American Empire to América Cósmica through Philosophy: Prospero's Reflection by Terrance MacMullan 9781793653741
RRP: £81.00£71.06From American Empire to América Cósmica through Philosophy: Prospero's Reflection envisions a greater ideal American philosophy that integrates philosophies from across the Americas and is set to work resolving the problems that vex the peoples of the... -
The Correspondence of Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company, 1890–1913 Stetson J. Robinson 9783111531946
RRP: £27.50£20.42This 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... -
Rationalist Pragmatism: A Framework for Moral Objectivism by Mitchell Silver 9781793605412
RRP: £35.00£30.95In Rationalist Pragmatism: A Framework for Moral Objectivism, Mitchell Silver draws from a wide array of philosophical fields to formulate a comprehensive theory of ethics. He argues that an understanding of justification rooted in pragmatism leads to... -
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot by John Kaag 9780739185988
RRP: £45.00£39.49Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism provides an account of the life and writings of Ella Lyman Cabot (1866-1934), a woman who received formal training, but not formal recognition, in the field of classical American philosophy. It highlights the themes of... -
Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern by Andrew Wells Garnar 9781498597616
RRP: £35.00£30.95Is postmodernity over? Does postmodernism still have anything important to say? Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern argues "yes" to both. Despite the claims of a number of scholars that "postmodern" is over... -
Pragmatism in the Americas by Gregory Fernando Pappas 9780823233670
£86.40In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the Hispanic world. Pragmatism and the Hispanic... -
Conversion in American Philosophy: Exploring the Practice of Transformation by Roger A. Ward 9780823223138
£76.91In this fresh, provocative account of the American philosophical tradition, Roger Ward explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, Ward threads the history...