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New Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199279975
Booksplease Price: $83.49Pragmatism 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... -
New Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199279982
Booksplease Price: $53.08Pragmatism 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Peirce by Cheryl Misak
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.13Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher. He was the founder of pragmatism, the view popularized by William James and John Dewey, that our... -
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780199231201
Booksplease Price: $85.18Cheryl 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... -
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780198709374
Booksplease Price: $51.03Cheryl 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Peirce by Cheryl Misak 9780521570060
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $109.22Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally considered the most significant American philosopher. He was the founder of pragmatism, the view popularized by William James and John Dewey, that our... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $14.09The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations... -
Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation by Cheryl Misak
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07Cheryl Misak argues that truth ought to be reinstated to a central position in moral and political philosophy. She argues that the correct account of truth is one found in a certain kind of... -
The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy by Cheryl Misak 9780199592470
Booksplease Price: $73.76Cheryl Misak presents the first collective study of the development of philosophy in North America, from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century. Twenty-six leading experts examine... -
Oxford Pragmatism: Ryle and Austin's Debt Cheryl Misak 9780198875888
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.35Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on the Oxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak 9780198755357
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.06When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to... -
Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak 9780198712077
Booksplease Price: $89.07Cheryl 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... -
Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein by Cheryl Misak 9780198822608
Booksplease Price: $41.32Cheryl 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... -
The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century by Cheryl Misak 9780197266168
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.41American pragmatism, born in the 1870s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has as its central insight the idea that our philosophical concepts of truth, knowledge, probability, and so on must start with,... -
The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism by Scott F. Aikin 9781032347707
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.07The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters-written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers-that assess the past, present, and... -
A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy by Robert B. Talisse 9780415998468
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $70.92In recent years there has been a renewed interest in American pragmatism. In political philosophy, the revival of pragmatism has led to a new appreciation for the democratic theory of John Dewey. In... -
What Makes a Philosopher Great?: Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers by Stephen Hetherington
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical... -
Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth by C.J. Misak 9780199270590
RRP: $73.53Booksplease Price: $58.99C. S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, argued that truth is what we would agree upon, were inquiry to be pursued as far as it could fruitfully go. In this book C. J. Misak argues for and elucidates... -
Pragmatism Revisited by Robert Lane 9781009453813
Booksplease Price: $116.84Pragmatism originated in the United States in the 1870s, and since then it has been influential on numerous areas of philosophical thought. This volume of new essays demonstrates pragmatism's... -
Pragmatism: An Introduction Michael Bacon 9780745646657
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.92Pragmatism: 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... -
Pragmatism: An Introduction by Michael Bacon 9780745646640
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Pragmatism: 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... -
Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth by Robert B. Westbrook 9780801428333
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.66Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition." In Democratic Hope, Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought... -
Margaret Macdonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s: Unpublished Letters with Biographical and Interpretive Essays Michael Kremer 9780198875734
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $91.18This volume examines the important but, until recently, forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Macdonald's career spanned one of the most significant and fascinating... -
Peirce Albert Atkin (Macquarie University, Australia) 9780415488327
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.95Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers. Peirce is also widely known for his work on truth, his... -
The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present by Robert B. Talisse
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.70The 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... -
The Pragmatic Maxim: Essays on Peirce and pragmatism by Christopher Hookway 9780199588381
Booksplease Price: $130.21Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers... -
Religion and Democratic Citizenship: Inquiry and Conviction in the American Public Square by Caleb J. Clanton 9780739120804
Booksplease Price: $124.29Polls indicate that many, if not most, Americans think that their religion should play some sort of role in the political arena. But are they misguided? When citizens allow their religious... -
Religion and Democratic Citizenship: Inquiry and Conviction in the American Public Square by Caleb J. Clanton 9780739120811
Booksplease Price: $57.74Polls indicate that many, if not most, Americans think that their religion should play some sort of role in the political arena. But are they misguided? When citizens allow their religious... -
Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Beaney 9780198778028
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.09Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy... -
The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education by Philip Kitcher 9780190928971
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $45.09Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores... -
On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy by Fraser MacBride 9780198811251
Booksplease Price: $129.30The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth... -
Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology: Analysis and Consciousness by Richard Kenneth Atkins 9780190887179
Booksplease Price: $101.65No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is... -
The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering by Matthieu Queloz
Booksplease Price: $130.21This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866435
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.72A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866336
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $23.93A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant... -
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science by Thomas S. Kuhn
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $24.79A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains the text of Thomas S. Kuhn's unfinished book, The...