Bücher der Reihe American Philosophy

The contributors of these essays assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. The essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged, reinvesting its importance from a new angle of vision.

Donald Morse considers John Dewey's early philosophy & explicates its key ideas through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology.

Presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy - as a thinker whose work, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into philosophical debates. This book provides novel interpretations of Dewey's views of religious belief, the psychology of habit, and philosophical anthropology.

In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James's concept of the much-at-once to develop a holistic philosophy of the experiencing body, giving special attention to the importance of music, and engaging a rich array of thinkers and composers ranging from Jefferson and James to Beethoven and Mahler.

Considers the tension between art and morality in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights; in religion, drama, sculpture, philosophical methodology, biography, and attitudes toward mortality; in the work of Gotthold Lessing, Lewis Carroll, Charles Peirce, Leo Tolstoy, William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Monroe Beardsley, and George Santayana.

Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. Working out of the American pragmatist tradition, the book aims to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life.

In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology.

This book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avoided, or benign. We need to find ways to relate respectfully. For respectful relationships to be a real possibility, though, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with whom they live, work, and play.

The Things in Heaven and Earth is a development and application of the Columbia Naturalism of John Dewey, John Herman Randall, Jr., and Justus Buchler. The chapters deal with systematic ontology, epistemology, constructivism and objectivity, philosophical theology, art, democratic theory, foreign policy, education, humanism, and cosmopolitanism.

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 and the Hispanic World examines the intersection between these two traditions, advancing new and unexplored realms of Western philosophy, and uncovering new relationships. It argues that, with respect to philosophical issues, there are fewer rifts and more affinity than is commonly thought between these two worlds.The book will provide an invaluable source for philosophers and philosophy students, as well as for scholars from other disciplines (e.g., history, political science, sociology, diversity studies, and gender and race studies) to begin understanding the dynamic relationship in thinking between the two Americas. In additional to documenting the results of a new and thriving area of research, it can also function as a primer to direct and provoke further inquiry. The volume is divided into three parts. First, the reception of the classical American Pragmatists within the Hispanic world is explored. Some of the essays argue for the inclusion of Hispanic figures in the history of pragmatism and therefore challenge the notion that pragmatism is a philosophy that is exclusively North American. Others put forth pragmatism as a philosophy that can contribute to dealing with the present social, ethical, or political problems experienced by Hispanics in and outside of the United States. These essays, from North American, Spanish, and Latin American scholars, fill a void in the humanities and introduce a number of Hispanic pragmatists, who are not included in standard pragmatists texts. Altogether, the book questions gaps that never existed, building new bridges instead. It pioneers the way for a twenty-first-century dialogue between two great philosophical traditions.

Brings Peirce and social criticism into conversation

The question of how far Dewey's thought is indebted to Hegel has long been a conundrum for philosophers. This book shows that, far from repudiating Hegel, Dewey's entire pragmatic philosophy is premised on a philosophy of spirit inspired by Hegel's project.

Though left out of the mainstream of academic philosophy, Royce's conception of community influenced generations of leaders who sought to end racial, religious, and national prejudice, including Martin Luther King, Jr. This book includes an introduction to Royce's philosophy of loyalty.

Traces the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. This work addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience.

This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found.

"This well-reasoned defense of the role of metaphysics in the philosophy of religion furnishes a much-needed corrective."-Religious Education

These two volumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce's thought, providing comprehensive selection of his writings. They offer a detailed presentation of the viable relationship Royce forged between the local experience of community and the demands of a philosophical and scientific vision of the human situation.

First book to address directly the importance of education in Cavell's work

Conversations on Peirce provides a loosely related set of essays dealing with the philosophy of American pragmatist Charles Peirce that developed out of conversations between the authors over the last decade. The essays deal generally with the ways in which Peirce was both a realist and an idealist. Several of the essays also explore the consequences of these ideas in Peirce's thought.

This collection of essays examine the norms and social practices in epistemology and in moral and social philosophy. The contributors examine the issue across a range of subjects, including logic, education, foundations of morality, philosophy of law, and the pragmatic character of reason.

"Extremely well done... will universally be referred to, not by its title, but as 'Kraus's Companion'..." -Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society

William James' celebrated lecture on "The Will to Believe" has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this title, the author contributes some fresh contentions: that James' argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Pascal and Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our over-beliefs.

The work of Charles S. Peirce has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that confront us as human beings. Here, Father Potter argues that Peirce's doctrine of normative sciences is essential to his pragmatism, showing him as a cosmological and ontological thinker.

This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.

A provocative interpretation of James and an open-ended claim for a religious view that does not fly in the face of what we know about ourselves and our world. Recommended.-Choice

the essential reference for those seeking to understand the most profound registers of this major American thinker.

Reason, Experience, and God provides an important and comprehensive look at the work of John E. Smith by collected essays which each address aspects of his life-long work. A response by John E. Smith himself draws a line of continuity between the pieces.

The author of this book, arguing that religion has become an enigma for modern man, attempts to reconcile philosophy with religion. He shows that the prevailing attitude of indifference to religion in recent times can only be overcome through radical reflection and self-criticism.

X-The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge.

This book, the result of cooperation between the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the Dewey Center at the University of Cologne, provides an excellent example of the international character of pragmatist studies agai