Pragmatism category: 176 books
Humanity at the Crossroads
Technological Progress, Spiritual Evolution, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But, if we are at such a crossroads, are we even properly...
by William James
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This 1908 collection of lectures delivered by James constitutes an attack upon the philosophical idea of monistic idealism, which James believes has removed philosophical inquiry from the realms of the actual and experiential. James champions the idea of pluralism, which stresses the manifold nature of existence.
by Joseph Margolis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Toward a Metaphysics of Culture provides an initial, minimal, and original analysis of the concept of uniquely enlanguaged cultures of the human world and of the distinctive metaphysical features of whatever belongs to the things of that world: preeminently, persons, language, actions, artworks, products,...
The Philosophy of William James
Radical Empiricism and Radical Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book focuses on William James' philosophy as it relates to his conceptions of ordinary experience, the respective natures of self and the world, and the interrelations of these three things.
Doing Philosophy of Technology
Essays in a Pragmatist Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
As science becomes more deeply embedded in a complex technological infrastructure, has this changed the relationship between the sciences and the various technologies that support them? As our technologies help shrink our world, can we restrict our ethical concerns or must we find a way to face the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University—the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today. The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead brings together a range of scholars who provide detailed analyses...
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science
An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration.
Evolutionary...
by robert firth
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
For the very worst kind of liberals they long ago beginning with guys like Bertram Russell Woodrow Wilson and the Fabian Society understood that the greatest flaw in democracy was the one man one vote concept and if they could corrupt this system they could hugely benefit and in the process gain enormous...
by Henri Bergson
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2013
L'ouvrage le plus complet sur le philosophe français Henri Bergson (nouvelle édition 2013)
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Derrida/Searle
Deconstruction and Ordinary Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
" 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 trivial internal conversations. Focussing...
Genealogy as Critique
Foucault and the Problems of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation....
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America
From 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work.
Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this...