Pragmatism category: 176 books
F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism
The Rhetoric of a Philosophical Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The intellectual history of pragmatism traditionally posits that its origins are found in the works of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. What if that story is only partially true? Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, the foremost first generation British pragmatist, was one of the most vocal...
The Pragmatism Reader
From Peirce through the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
The 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 distinctively pragmatist approach to a core philosophical problem. The collection includes work by pragmatism's...
Pragmatism and Naturalism
Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Most contemporary philosophers would call themselves naturalists, yet there is little consensus on what naturalism entails. Long signifying the notion that science should inform philosophy, debates over naturalism often hinge on how broadly or narrowly the terms nature and science are defined. The...
Pragmatism, Nation, and Race
Community in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Pragmatism 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 Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume...
by Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
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 Charles Peirce, William James, and...
The Revival of Pragmatism
New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Although 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, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since...
Pragmatism Ascendent
A Yard of Narrative, a Touch of Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Pragmatism 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 century through the beginning of the 21st. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
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 problems in the philosophy of language, the philosophy...
by Deborah Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative,...
Cambridge Pragmatism
From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Cheryl 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 a sentence and the believer-independent world, but rather, a belief that works. The founders of pragmatism,...
Building a Social Democracy
The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism...
Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations
Essays for a Bold New World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
What are the implications of philosophical pragmatism for international relations theory and foreign policy practice? According to John Ryder, “a foreign policy built on pragmatist principles is neither naïve nor dangerous. In fact, it is very much what both the U.S. and the world are currently...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Pragmatism 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 Companion to Pragmatism introduces many of the ideas...
by F. Thomas Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
F. 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. Burke contrasts pragmatism as a certain set...