Pragmatism category: 176 books
The Truth Is What Works
William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
Charles Sanders Peirce complained that James allowed pragmatism to become 'infected' with 'seeds of death' like the idea that truth is mutable. The Truth is What Works is an attempt to defend James's pragmatic theory of truth from a wide range of critics including Peirce, Betrand Russell, Hilary Putnam,...
Pragmatism in Transition
Contemporary Perspectives on C.I. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This collection is an attempt by a diverse range of authors to reignite interest in C.I. Lewis’s work within the pragmatist and analytic traditions. Although pragmatism has enjoyed a renewed popularity in the past thirty years, some influential pragmatists have been overlooked. C. I. Lewis is arguably...
Kósmos Noetós
The Metaphysical Architecture of Charles S. Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This pioneering book presents a reconstitution of Charles Sanders Peirce philosophical system as a coherent architecture of concepts that form a unified theory of reality. Historically, the majority of Peircean scholars adopted a thematic approach to study isolated topics such as semiotics and pragmatism...
by William James
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book-collection file includes: Talks to Teachers, Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, and Memories and Studies. According to Wikipedia: "William James (January 11, 1842 August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher...
William James in Focus
Willing to Believe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
William James (1842-1910) is a canonical figure of American pragmatism. Trained as a medical doctor, James was more engaged by psychology and philosophy and wrote a foundational text, Pragmatism, for this characteristically American way of thinking. Distilling the main currents of James's thought,...
Community As Healing
Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
The brief history of 20th century bioethics has been dominated by discussions of principles and appeals to autonomy that both divorce theory from practice and champion a notion of the individual as prior to and isolated from society. Pragmatism, on the other hand, has long sought to reconstruct ethical...
Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy
Rekindling Pragmatism's Fire
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a lively conversation about pragmatism's past, present, and future as a guiding paradigm for philosophy and related fields.
by Charles Sanders Peirce
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Charles Peirce’s Illustrations of the Logic of Science is an early work in the philosophy of science and the official birthplace of pragmatism. It contains Peirce’s two most influential papers: The Fixation of Belief” and How to Make Our Ideas Clear,” as well as discussions on the theory...
by Hilary Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Hilary Putnam argues that all facts are dependent on cognitive values. Ruth Anna Putnam turns the problem around, illuminating the factual basis of moral principles. Together, they offer a pragmatic vision that in Hilary’s words serves “as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond.”
Reverence for the Relations of Life
Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Josiah Royce and William James lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Irving Street, just two doors apart, and Charles Peirce grew up only blocks away. John Dewey was born and educated in nearby Vermont. These four great thinkers shared more than geographic space; they engaged in a series of formative...
The Pragmatic Vision
Themes in Philosophical Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Since C. S. Pierce advocated a pragmatic approach to truth and knowledge, it has been one of the characteristic themes of American philosophy. This book examines how pragmatism's central ideas can be applied and implemented across the entire domain of philosophical deliberations, ranging from theory...
by Beth L. Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In the late nineteenth century, culture critics who were readers of Darwin’s work on evolution pondered what the implications of natural selection might be for human culture, religion and ethics. American pragmatists, by and large, rejected a social Darwinian spin on ethics, economics, and theology...
Toppling the Melting Pot
Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The catalyst for much of classical pragmatist political thought was the great waves of migration to the United States in the early twentieth century. José-Antonio Orosco examines the work of several pragmatist social thinkers, including John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams,...
by John J. Stuhr
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.