Pragmatism category: 176 books
by Michael Jacovides
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Modern philosophy originates during the scientific revolution, and Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how this scientific background influences one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John Locke. With this guiding thread, Jacovides gives clear and accurate answers to...
The Nature of Truth
An updated approach to the meaning of truth ascriptions
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth...
Back to the Rough Ground
Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy,...
From Cause to Causation
A Peircean Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce.
The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: German
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Arthur Schopenhauer - Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten // Eristische Dialektik
As Wide as the World Is Wise
Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists...
by Thomas J. Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This concise and accessible book is a synthesis of the basic principles of the contemporary pragmatist philosophy of science.
It discusses the aim of basic science, the methods of scientific discovery, the criteria for scientific criticism, and the nature of scientific explanation. Included...
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by John Dewey, Addison Moore, Harold Chapman-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
The Essays which follow represent an attempt at intellectual coöperation. No effort has been made, however, to attain unanimity of belief nor to proffer a platform of "planks" on which there is agreement. The consensus represented lies primarily in outlook, in conviction of what is most...
Naturalism's Philosophy of the Sacred
Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Naturalism’s Philosophy of the Sacred: Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana
offers an interpretation of the sacred based on the ordinal naturalism of Justus Buchler, one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century whose work is experiencing a renaissance. This book...
The Metaphysical Club
A Story of Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2002
The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought.
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver...
Contemporary Varieties of Religious Experience
James's Classic Study in Light of Resiliency, Temperament, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
First published in 1902, William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is considered a classic in religious studies and the psychology of religion. But how has James's classic study weathered decades of development in psychology and behavioral sciences? Do the assertions about religious experience...
by Karma Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HANG ON!
This book tells you why, pulling back the curtain on the crux of perseverance and explaining in detail everything from apathy and poise to determination and tenacity.
For millennia, some people have always received accolades...
John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform
Cultivating Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society,...
The Philosophy of Gesture
Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In everyday reasoning - just as in science and art - knowledge is acquired more by "doing" than with long analyses. What do we "do" when we discover something new? How can we define and explore the pattern of this reasoning, traditionally called "synthetic"? Following in the steps of classic pragmatists,...