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Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce
$185.35In 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 Ideal and the Real: Studies in Pragmatism by Marco Stango
RRP: $33.58$27.99Apologies 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 -
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
RRP: $35.60$33.39This new release of the classic text Pragmatism is absolutely timely. James' seminal statement of pragmatism's underpinnings and its treatment of essential philosophical questions (the nature of truth; the one and the many; free will; etc.) could not... -
Full Responsibility: On Pragmatic, Political, and Other Modes of Sharing Action by Steven G. Smith
RRP: $53.57$46.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438489827Author Steven G. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joseph Margolis
RRP: $134.40$113.97In contemporary philosophical debates in the United States "redefining pragmatism" has become the conventional way to flag significant philosophical contests and to launch large conceptual and programmatic changes. This book analyzes the... -
Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire by Chad Kautzer
RRP: $50.38$19.07Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad... -
Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd by John J. Stuhr
RRP: $54.58$46.28John 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... -
Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism by Maurice Hamington
RRP: $69.28$61.24The notion of "feminist pragmatism" or "pragmatist feminism" has been around since Charlene Haddock Seigfried introduced it two decades ago. However, the bulk of the work in this field has been directed toward recovering the feminist strain of classical... -
Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison by James M. Albrecht
RRP: $136.50$116.55America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy... -
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson
$79.84The 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... -
Pragmatism in the Americas by Gregory Fernando Pappas
RRP: $62.98$29.84In 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... -
The Cost of Comfort by John Lachs
RRP: $35.68$30.95Philosopher 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... -
Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God by Sami Pihlstrom
RRP: $123.90$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... -
Josiah Royce in Focus by Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
RRP: $35.68$30.95This new approach to Josiah Royce shows one of American philosophy's brightest minds in action for today's readers. Although Royce was one of the towering figures of American pragmatism, his thought is often considered in the wake of his more famous... -
The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture by Morris Dickstein
RRP: $58.78$53.24Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust,... -
Pragmatism Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy by Joseph Margolis
RRP: $54.58$46.28Pragmatism 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... -
The Bloomsbury Companion to Pragmatism by Sami Pihlstrom
$84.32Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the reality we inhabit. Approaching this philosophical tradition as a diverse set of philosophies that it is, The Bloomsbury... -
The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism by John Ryder
$67.60The 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... -
Stoic Pragmatism by John Lachs
RRP: $46.18$22.01John Lachs, one of American philosophy's most distinguished interpreters, turns to William James, Josiah Royce, Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and George Santayana to elaborate stoic pragmatism, or a way to live life within reasonable limits. Stoic... -
After Emerson by John T. Lysaker
RRP: $50.38$42.86John 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,... -
Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World by Giles B. Gunn
RRP: $63.00$61.43In 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... -
Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance MacMullan
RRP: $54.58$46.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780253059826Author Terrance MacMullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher Indiana University PressWeight(grams) 155g -
Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century by Joseph Margolis
RRP: $54.58$47.31This 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. ... -
Toppling the Melting Pot: Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism by Jose-Antonio Orosco
RRP: $132.30$112.22The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. Jose-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E... -
America's Public Philosopher: Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy by John Dewey
RRP: $46.20$35.68John 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... -
What Pragmatism Was by F. Thomas Burke
RRP: $46.18$39.46F. 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... -
Pragmatism, Law, and Language by Graham Hubbs
RRP: $92.38$81.56This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism has come to mean for the law. Each contribution uses the resources of pragmatism to tackle fundamental... -
Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy by Beth J. Singer
RRP: $62.98$54.58"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... -
Intentionality and the Myths of the Given: Between Pragmatism and Phenomenology by Carl B. Sachs
RRP: $83.98$73.63Intentionality is one of the central problems of modern philosophy. How can a thought, action or belief be about something? Sachs draws on the work of Wilfrid Sellars, C I Lewis and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to build a new theory of intentionality that... -
Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: $178.50$152.36Larry 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... -
The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson by Naoko Saito
RRP: $159.60$73.96In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack... -
John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education Michael G. Festl 9781032756288
RRP: $283.50$240.98This volume reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially John Dewey's. It addresses what democratic education can mean in the face of the current threats that are undermining democracy.Since the middle of the twentieth century,...