Pragmatism Books

For the past fifteen years, Aikin and Talisse have been working collaboratively on a new vision of American pragmatism, one which sees pragmatism as a living and developing philosophical idiom that originates in the work of the "classical" pragmatisms of...

This book is an attempt to understand a significant part of the complex thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, especially in those areas which interested him most: scientific method and related philosophical questions. It is organized primarily from Peirce's...

Christopher 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. Peirce made significant contributions to the...

As one of America's "public intellectuals," John Dewey was engaged in a lifelong struggle to understand the human mind and the nature of human inquiry. According to Thomas C. Dalton, the successful pursuit of this mission demanded that Dewey become more...

Das Buch ""Einleitung Zur Astrognosie Nach Den Homannischen Himmels-Charten"" wurde im Jahr 1745 von Basilius Christian Bernhard Wiedeburg ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine Einf�����hrung in die Astrognosie, die auf den Himmelskarten von Johann Baptist...

Schwachheiten Der Wiener (1784) ist ein Buch des ������sterreichischen Schriftstellers Arnold, das sich mit den Schw�����chen und Fehlern der Wiener Gesellschaft im sp�����ten 18. Jahrhundert auseinandersetzt. Das Werk ist in Form von Briefen verfasst,...

""An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets"" is a book written by Richard Simpson in 1868. The book is a critical analysis of the philosophical themes and ideas presented in Shakespeare's sonnets. Simpson examines the sonnets from a...

The 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...

Through a series of case studies, the book thoroughly investigates the pragmatic elements of "new pragmatism", which inherits the legacy of classical pragmatism and combines the topics and methods of analytic philosophy.

""Die Lehre vom Beweis"" ist ein Buch von Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, das im Jahr 1834 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk behandelt die Lehre vom Beweis im deutschen Strafprozess nach der Fortbildung durch Gerichtsgebrauch und deutsche...

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James' moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James' performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal...

Emerging from the confusion and chaos of neoliberal economic systems around the world, this book brings together a collection of major philosophical ideas from previous centuries and applies them to the practice of education. This work will be of...

Richard J. Bernstein is a leading exponent of American pragmatism and one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection he takes a pragmatic approach to specific problems and issues to demonstrate the ongoing importance of...

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze's explicit references to...

This book uses literary examples makes the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism.

Taking 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,...

William James claimed that his Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking would prove triumphant and epoch-making. Today, after more than 100 years, how is pragmatism to be understood? What has been its cultural and philosophical impact? Is it...

In 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 in the Americas...

Dissertationes Quinque Ad Dioptricam, a Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, anno MDCCLXVII editae, sunt opuscula quae de optica tractant. In his quinque dissertationibus, Boscovich varias quaestiones dioptricae tractat, inter quas sunt de refractione luminis, de...

Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philosophical traditions seem well-suited to develop nascent philosophical engagement with disability studies. To date, however, there have...

This 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...

Das Buch ""Kritik �����ber die Geschichte und Abhandlungen des Herrn Abts Fleury, Teil 1"" wurde im Jahr 1789 von Giovanni Marchetti verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Geschichtsschreibungen und Abhandlungen des Abts...

This 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...

""Der Pragmatismus der Geistesgaben"" ist ein Buch von Franz Anton Staudenmaier, das im Jahr 1835 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit dem Pragmatismus als philosophischer Ansatz und dessen Anwendung auf die...

" 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...

This 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...

This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatismfrom a literary perspective, tracing the characters and settings that populatethe narratives of pragmatist thought in Henry James's work. Cultivated during apostwar era of industrial...

This book investigates the conflicts concerning pragmatism inWittgenstein's work On Certainty, through a comparison with thepragmatist tradition as expressed by its founding fathers Charles S. Peirceand William James. It also describes Wittgenstein's...

While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as a 'positive' examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and...

In this informative and engaging book, Arnold Van Couthen Piccardt Huizinga provides an overview of American pragmatism, a philosophical movement that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Huizinga explains the key ideas of pragmatism and...

Dieses Buch ist eine Einführung in die Philosophie der reinen Erfahrung. Joseph Petzoldt beschreibt die grundlegenden Konzepte der Philosophie der reinen Erfahrung und vermittelt ihren historischen Kontext und ihre theoretischen Grundlagen. Es ist ein...

Eighteenth-Century Science and Radical Social Theory: The Case of Joseph Priestley's Scientific Liberalism.- Science, Politics, and the New Science of Politics: A Comment.- Critical Reactions to the Occult Sciences During the Renaissance.- Critical...

Conseils De Philosophie Pratique (1847) est un livre �����crit par Alex Volkonsky. Il s'agit d'un recueil de conseils pratiques bas�����s sur la philosophie pour aider les lecteurs ������ naviguer dans les d�����fis de la vie quotidienne. Le livre aborde...

First 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...

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839--1914) has often been referred to as one of the most important North American philosophers, but the real extent of his philosophical importance is only now beginning to emerge. Peirce's...

For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor...

In this third volume of a monumental four book survey of Phenome­ nology world-wide fifty years after the death of its chief founder, Edmund Husserl, we have a collection of studies which, in the first place, consider Husserl's...

This book has two parts. The first part is chiefly concerned with critically establishing the universally necessary order of the various steps of transcendental phenomenological method; the second part provides specific cases...

In our current social landscape, moral questions-about economic disparity, disadvantaging biases, and scarcity-are rightly receiving attention with a sense of urgency. This book argues that classical pragmatism offers a compelling and useful account of...

Diversity is both an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living and a powerful challenge to older philosophical traditions that still assume as normatively universal a set of values, ways of thinking, institutions, and habits of living that...

That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom. The essays in this volume attempt to reassess some...