Pragmatism Books

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...

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

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...

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors...

This book charts an interdisciplinary narrative of literary pragmatism and creative democracy across the writings of African American women, from the works of nineteenth-century philosophers to the novels and short stories of Harlem Renaissance authors...

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...

This book investigates a number of central problems in the philosophy of Charles Peirce grouped around the realism of his semiotics: the issue of how sign systems are developed and used in the investigation of reality. Thus, it deals with the precise...

An Unabridged, Unaltered Edition To Include A Comprehensive Index: The Will To Believe - Is Life Worth Living - The Sentiment Of Rationality - Reflex Action And Theism - The Dilemma Of Determinism - The Moral Philosopher And The Moral Life - Great Men...

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...

This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically engages the sign system of C. S. Peirce, which it sees as a...

This study explores pragmatic strategies in disagreement affected by power relations in Mandarin Chinese with data collected in the People's Republic of China.This study first investigates in what ways power relations in Chinese university settings...

In chapter 1 of this book, I explore four paradigms of justification: epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (which I call the traditional paradigms) and pragmatism and contextualism (the existential paradigms). I argue that the existential paradigms...

This book examines the ways in which religious communities experimentally engage the world and function as fallible inquisitive agents, despite frequent protests to the contrary. Using the philosophy of inquiry and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it...

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...

This vintage book contains an introduction to William James’s ideas of philosophical pragmatism. Written in the highly readable and enjoyable style James is renowned for, this book will appeal not only to philosophy enthusiasts, but also to anyone in...

A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.

Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.

Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge.

The difference between a status-quo, but revisable, “common sense” and new realities, new discoveries, and such, generates a tension. One of the places where philosophy spends its time is the border country between a new science and an old...

For a good part of the 20th century, the classic Pragmatists-Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey-and pragmatism in general were largely ignored by analytic philosophers. They were said to hold such untenable views as whatever best...

This volume offers critical responses to philosophical naturalism from the perspectives of four different yet fundamentally interconnected philosophical traditions: Kantian idealism, Hegelian idealism, British idealism, and American pragmatism. In...

Explore the philosophical ideas and pragmatist theories of William James in this enlightening book. From the nature of truth to the meaning of consciousness, this book delves into the intellectual legacy of one of the most influential American...

This book explores the philosophy of William Pepperell Montague, an American philosopher who introduced the concept of 'animistic materialism' to explain the relationship between mind and matter. The book analyzes Montague's ideas and places them in the...