Nature in American philosophy / edited by Jean de Groot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Groot, Jean.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 42

Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy; Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of nature.

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With its focus on philosophy of nature, this book fills a gap in the ongoing reassessment of nineteenth-century American philosophy, and it opens the way to further study of the role played by reflection on nature in the emergence of the American mind.

Contents:

The colors of the spirit : Emerson and Thoreau on nature and the self / Russell B. Goodman

The world beyond our mountains : nature in the philosophy of Josiah Royce / John Clendenning

Sense-critical realism : a transcendental-pragmatic interpretation of C.S. Peirce's theory of reality and truth / Karl-Otto Apel

Homegrown positivism : Charles Darwin and Chauncey Wright / Jean de Groot

William James and German naturalism / Stefano Poggi

C.S. Peirce's reclamation of teleology / Vincent Colapietro

Nature and fact in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Harvey C. Mansfield

Holmes on natural law / Robert P. George

Dewey's metaphysics of existence / Joseph Margolis

Perspectives on nature in American thought / Nicholas Rescher.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-2043-2

OCLC:

815970841