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Naturalism's Philosophy of the Sacred: Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana by Martin O. Yalcin 9780739184998
RRP: $172.20$160.08Naturalism's Philosophy of the Sacred: Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana offers an interpretation of the sacred based on the ordinal naturalism of Justus Buchler, one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century whose work... -
George Santayana at 150: International Intepretations by Matthew Caleb Flamm 9780739183083
RRP: $220.50$201.66Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth... -
Feminist Interpretations of William James by Erin C. Tarver 9780271070902
RRP: $170.00$148.49Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and... -
The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought by Bruce Wilshire 9780271020266
$73.02Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for... -
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique by Joseph Dunne 9780268161729
RRP: $235.20$200.72Back 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 Cost of Comfort by John Lachs 9780253043160
RRP: $113.40$96.50Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing unhappiness. In The Cost of Comfort, Lachs contemplates what humans need in order to live fulfilled lives... -
After Emerson by John T. Lysaker 9780253025982
RRP: $159.60$136.52John T. Lysaker works between and weaves together questions and replies in philosophical psychology, Emerson studies, and ethics in this book of deep existential questioning. Each essay in this atypical, philosophical book employs recurring terms,... -
America's Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy by John Dewey 9780231198943
RRP: $168.00$127.70John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. His work stands out for its remarkable breadth, and his deep commitment to democracy led him to courageous progressive stances on issues such as war, civil liberties, and racial, class, and gender... -
Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty by Colin Koopman 9780231148757
RRP: $52.50$40.28Pragmatism 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 Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism by John Ryder 9780823244683
RRP: $189.00$162.02The 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... -
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson 9780823234677
$184.46The 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... -
Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives by Vincent G. Potter 9780823216161
$77.49This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.Book InformationISBN 9780823216161Author Vincent G. PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher... -
Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals by Vincent G. Potter 9780823217106
$77.66In 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 Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy by Joseph Margolis 9780804782272
RRP: $226.80$192.84Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. It covers the period of American philosophy's greatest influence worldwide, from the second half of the 20th... -
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture by Deborah Whitehead 9780253018229
RRP: $50.38$42.86William 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... -
What Pragmatism Was by F. Thomas Burke 9780253009548
RRP: $140.70$119.20F. Thomas Burke believes that pragmatism, especially as it has been employed in politics and social action, needs a reassessment. He examines the philosophies of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how certain maxims of pragmatism originated... -
Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd by John J. Stuhr 9780253018847
RRP: $151.20$128.77John 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... -
New Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199279975
$135.28Pragmatism 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,... -
The Essential Essays: Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy and Freedom by Robert Talisse 9781591020226
RRP: $63.00$46.16Sidney Hook is arguably America's most controversial intellectual. After beginning his career as this nation's foremost Marxist scholar, he became in the late 1930s the leading anticommunist intellectual and defender of freedom against all forms of... -
Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism: A Dialogue on Hope, the Philosophy of Race, and the Spiritual Blues by Jacob L. Goodson 9781498539968
RRP: $170.10$156.47Prophetic 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... -
William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism by David Lapoujade 9781478005155
RRP: $178.50$152.36Originally 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... -
Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern by Andrew Wells Garnar 9781498597593
RRP: $170.10$156.47Is 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 and done with, Andrew... -
Contemporary Varieties of Religious Experience: James's Classic Study in Light of Resiliency, Temperament, and Trauma by Lynn Bridgers 9780742544314
$243.50First published in 1902, William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is considered a classic in religious studies and the psychology of religion. But how has James's classic study weathered decades of development in psychology and behavioral... -
Community As Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters by Micah D. Hester 9780742512191
$74.38The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society. Pragmatism, on the... -
Peirce Mattering: Value, Realism, and the Pragmatic Maxim by Dorothea Sophia 9781793654106
RRP: $161.70$146.31“Mattering” is the process and product of reality. It is one from nothing. Using Charles Sanders Peirce’s systematic method of inquiry, Dorothea Sophia explores the meaning, the value, and the consequences of “mattering”: to be able to say, beyond... -
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$138.85The 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$182.60Mono 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... -
Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce, James, Mead and Dewey by Israel Scheffler 9780415681797
RRP: $79.78$70.10First published in 1974, this book is a critical introduction to the work of four quintessential pragmatist philosophers: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead and John Dewey. Alongside providing a general historical and biographical... -
John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality by Scott R. Stroud 9780271050072
RRP: $153.20$130.35Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human's interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or... -
American Pragmatism: An Introduction by Albert R. Spencer 9781509524716
RRP: $115.50$100.23In 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... -
Rethinking Pragmatism: From William James to Contemporary Philosophy by Robert Schwartz 9781119052432
RRP: $62.90$55.88Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. It clarifies pragmatic ideas... -
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Larry A. Hickman 9780823230181
$144.08Many 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... -
In Dewey's Wake: Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction by William J. Gavin 9780791456309
RRP: $53.57$46.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791456309Author William J. GavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy by Thomas W. Smith 9780791451427
RRP: $56.64$49.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791451427Author Thomas W. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy by Thomas W. Smith 9780791451410
RRP: $151.77$133.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791451410Author Thomas W. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 339Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion by Sami Pihlström 9781666926279
RRP: $170.10$149.23Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist investigations of the human search for meaning, by... -
Full Responsibility: On Pragmatic, Political, and Other Modes of Sharing Action by Steven G. Smith 9781438489810
RRP: $151.77$132.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438489810Author Steven G. SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty by Giancarlo Marchetti 9781032128788
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James' and Dewey's pragmatism, Rorty urged us to rethink the role of science and... -
Pragmatism and Social Philosophy: Exploring a Stream of Ideas from America to Europe by Michael G. Festl 9780367675103
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores the role that American pragmatism played in the development of social philosophy in 20th-century Europe.The essays in the first part of the book show how the ideas of Peirce, James, and Dewey influenced the traditions of European...