Pragmatism with purpose : selected writings / Peter Hare ; edited by Joseph Palencik, Douglas R. Anderson, and Steven A. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hare, Peter H., author.

Contributor:

Palencik, Joseph, editor.

Anderson, Douglas R., editor.

Miller, Stephen A., editor.

Series:

American philosophy series (Unnumbered)

American philosophy

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Part I The Ethics of Belief

1 The Right and Duty to Will to Believe / Peter Kauber Kauber, Peter 31

2 William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief / Edward H. Madden Madden, Edward H. 50

3 Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief 63

Part II Reflections on Classical Pragmatism

4 A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality / Edward H. Madden Madden, Edward H. 85

5 In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society 98

6 The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism 117

Part III Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism

7 Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics 125

8 Thickening Holistic Pragmatism 132

Part IV The Philosophy of Religion

9 On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil / Edward H. Madden Madden, Edward H. 155

10 Religion and Analytic Naturalism 167

11 Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology / John Ryder Ryder, John 174

Part V Philosophy Past and Future

12 Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism / John Lincourt Lincourt, John 189

13 The Future of American Philosophy 195

Part VI Poetry

14 What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism 209

15 Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss 215

16 Deep Conceptual Play in William James 227

Part VII Social Critique

17 Reflections on Civil Disobedience / Edward H. Madden Madden, Edward H. 245

18 The American Mind 263

19 The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems 270

20 Values of the American Intellectual Class 279.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823264322

0823264327

OCLC:

904143442