Pragmatism, the Classic Writings
Author: Charles S. Peirce
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780915145379
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Author: Charles S. Peirce
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780915145379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.
Author: Horace Standish Thayer
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 383
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horace S. Thayer
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 383
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horace Standish Thayer
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 383
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sandra B. Rosenthal
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252067600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers--Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead--on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society. Pragmatism emerged as a characteristically American response to an inheritance of British empiricism. Presenting a radical reconception of the nature of experience, pragmatism represents a belief that ideas are not merely to be contemplated but must be put into action, tested and refined through experience. At the same time, the American pragmatists argued for an emphasis on human community that would offset the deep-seated American bias in favor of individualism. Far from being a relic of the past, pragmatism offers a dynamic and substantive approach to questions of human conduct, social values, scientific inquiry, religious belief, and aesthetic experience that lie at the center of contemporary life. This volume is an invaluable introduction to a school of thought that remains vital, instructive, and provocative.
Author: William James
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-04-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0140437355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.
Author: Susan Haack
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 741
ISBN-13: 1615921702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMorris R. Cohen once described pragmatism as "a philosophy for people who cannot think"; and Bertrand Russell feared that pragmatism would lead philosophy into "cosmic impiety." Nothing could be further from the truth. Pragmatism was one of the most fruitful philosophical movements of the late nineteenth century, and has continued to be a significant influence on some of the major figures in philosophy - F. P. Ramsey, W. V. Quine, Sidney Hook, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, and many others.Today some even speak of a remarkable renaissance of pragmatism. Very often, though, what they have in mind is not the rich heritage of the classical pragmatist tradition, but a radical self-styled neo-pragmatism that has of late transmuted the reformist aspirations of classical pragmatism into a kind of revolutionary anti-intellectualism - a radical neo-pragmatism that seems to confirm Russell''s worst fears.Asking what we can learn from the older pragmatist tradition, and what we can salvage from the intellectual shipwreck of the new, Susan Haack, with the assistance of Robert Lane, has put together a wide-ranging anthology that tells the story of the evolution of pragmatism from its origins in C. S. Peirce''s hopes of making philosophy more scientific and William James''s of "unstiffening our theories," to the radical literary-political neo-pragmatism recently popularized by Richard Rorty. Opening with a history of pragmatism from its inception to the present day, and closing with Haack''s famous "interview" with Peirce and Rorty, the book presents a broad and diverse selection of pragmatist writings - classical and contemporary, reformist and revolutionary - on logic, metaphysics, theory of inquiry, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and moral, social, and political philosophy.
Author: Karl-Otto Apel
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-12-08
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1615924310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting a revival of Peirce studies and the rediscovery of the pragmatist tradition in American philosophical thinking, this study articulates a contemporary and relevant interpretation that may offer a challenge to neo-pragmatists.
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 383
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. Stuhr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780195041989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles S. Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead: each of these individuals is an original and historically important thinker; each is an essential contributor to the period, perspective, and tradition of classical American philosophy; and each speaks directly, imaginatively, critically, and wisely to our contemporary global society, its distant possibilities for improvement, and its massive, pressing problems. From the initiative of pragmatism in approximately 1870 to Dewey's final work after World War II, classical American philosophy has come to represent the critical articulation of attitudes, outlooks, and forms of life imbedded in the culture from which it arose. John Stuhr brings together the works of these foremost thinkers to present a comprehensive collection in American philosophy. Extensive introductory essays, written especially for this volume by leading scholars of the subject, provide not only the bibliographical and cultural contexts necessary to a full appreciation of each thinker, but also original critical and interpretive philosophical observations.