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Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy by Beth J. Singer 9780823218677
$161.09"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and... -
Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals by Vincent G. Potter 9780823217090
$170.65In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged, in the eyes of philosophers both in America and abroad, as one of America's major philosophical thinkers. His work has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that... -
Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joseph Margolis 9780804762687
$224.03This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. ... -
Frege's Detour: An Essay on Meaning, Reference, and Truth by John Perry 9780198812821
$103.47John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege's innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he... -
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson 9780823234677
$179.47The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors-and their colleagues and students-over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and... -
Decision Theory and Rationality by Jos^D'e Luis Berm^D'udez 9780199548026
$168.48The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences - from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and from management science to decision analysis. But what counts as rational action and rational... -
A Semiotic Theory of Community: Josiah Royce's Absolute Pragmatism by Paniel Reyes Cárdenas 9781666907087
RRP: $153.30$134.78This book shows the unity and novelty of Josiah Royce’s philosophy, one that he called an Absolute Pragmatism. The development of Royce’s thought led him to propose a synthetic-semiotic view of community that constitutes a unique and unparalleled... -
A Pragmatist Philosophy of History by Marnie Binder 9781793653710
RRP: $153.30$134.78The topic of history was not a principal theme of the classical American Pragmatists, but in this book Marnie Binder presents the case for a pragmatist philosophy of history, examining supporting material from William James, John Dewey, F.C.S. Schiller,... -
Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism by Johnathan Flowers 9781793626707
RRP: $201.60$177.20Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism places the naturalistic pragmatism of John Dewey in conversation with Motoori Norinaga’s mono no aware, a Japanese aesthetic theory of experience, to examine gender as a... -
Rationality and Cognition: Against Relativism-Pragmatism by Nenad Mis c evic
RRP: $81.90$68.08Apologies 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
$170.42This 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: $155.40$136.19William 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... -
The Relevance of Royce by Kelly A. Parker
$107.18This 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... -
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson
$77.76The essays in this book have grown out of conversations between the authors-and their colleagues and students-over the past decade and a half. Their germinal question concerned the ways in which Charles Sanders Peirce was and was not both an idealist and... -
Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God by Sami Pihlstrom
RRP: $115.50$50.00Pragmatism mediates rival extremes, and religion is no exception: The problems of realism versus antirealism, evidentialism versus fideism, and science versus religion, along with other key issues in the philosophy of religion, receive new... -
The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism by John Ryder
$65.86The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-20th century, specifically the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is called Columbia Naturalism: John Dewey, John Herman... -
Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life by Mathew A. Foust
RRP: $105.00$91.16As 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... -
Pragmatism as a Way of Life: The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey by Hilary Putnam 9780674967502
RRP: $102.80$82.76Throughout 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... -
Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak 9780198712077
$127.49Cheryl Misak offers a strikingly new view of the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. Pragmatism, the home-grown philosophy of America, thinks of truth not as a static relation between a sentence and the believer-independent world, but... -
The Philosophy of the Present by George Herbert Mead 9781573929486
RRP: $25.18$18.73George 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... -
Kant's Doctrine of Virtue by Mark Timmons
RRP: $51.43$46.41Immanuel 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... -
American Evasion of Philosophy by West 9780299119645
RRP: $46.10$43.91Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West's pantheon of pragmatists,... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144865
RRP: $184.80$145.22The 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... -
American Pragmatism: An Introduction Albert R. Spencer 9781509524723
RRP: $35.68$31.96In 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... -
Pragmatism`s Evolution – Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce
RRP: $65.10$63.40In 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... -
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199231201
$123.27Cheryl 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. She identifies two dominant lines of thought in the tradition: the first begins with... -
C. I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist by Murray G. Murphey 9780791465424
$62.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791465424Author Murray G. MurpheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism by David Lapoujade
RRP: $41.98$36.83Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it... -
Conversations About Reflexivity Margaret S. Archer 9780415733076
RRP: $113.38$98.43" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or... -
Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty by Colin Koopman 9780231148740
RRP: $176.40$137.95Pragmatism 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... -
The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present by Robert B. Talisse
RRP: $84.00$67.05The 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... -
Pragmatism by William James 9780915145058
RRP: $16.78$14.11Contents: Introduction, Bibliography and Textual Note Lecture I: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means Lecture III: Some Metaphysical Problems Pragmatically Considered Lecture IV: The One and the Many Lecture V:... -
Philosophy as Dialogue by Hilary Putnam
RRP: $79.70$64.07A collection of Hilary Putnam's stimulating, incisive responses to such varied and eminent thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, Martha Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and Cornel West.Hilary Putnam (1926-2016)... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
RRP: $58.80$45.78The 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, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment by Kenneth R. Westphal 9780823218196
RRP: $73.50$64.55This collection of essays examines the issue of norms and social practices both in epistemology and in moral and social philosophy. The contributors examine the issue across an unprecedented range of issues, including epistemology (realism, perception,... -
Decision Theory and Rationality by Jose Luis Bermudez 9780199596249
RRP: $75.58$64.47The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences - from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and from management science to decision analysis. But what counts as rational action and rational... -
Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
RRP: $63.00$61.43Though 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... -
Peirce's Account of Purposefulness: A Kantian Perspective Gabriele Gava 9781138498891
RRP: $100.78$87.80This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce's work based on a Kantian understanding of his teleological account of thought and inquiry. Departing from readings that contrast Peirce's treatment of purpose, end, and teleology with... -
New Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199279982
RRP: $78.73$63.32Pragmatism is the view that our philosophical concepts must be connected to our practices - philosophy must stay connected to first order inquiry, to real examples, to real-life expertise. The classical pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James,... -
Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey by Larry A. Hickman 9780823228423
RRP: $73.50$64.55Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy-as a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates. Hickman...