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Pragmatism with Purpose : Selected Writings / Peter Hare, Steven A. Miller, Douglas R. Anderson; Joseph Palencik.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hare, Peter, Author.
Anderson, Douglas R., Author.
Contributor:
Palencik, Joseph, Editor.
Series:
American philosophy.
American Philosophy
Standardized Title:
Essays. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Philosophy, American.
Pragmatism.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Language Note:
In English.
Summary:
Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Autobiographical Occasions
One. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe
Two. William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief
Three. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief
Four. A Critical Appraisal of James’s View of Causality
Five. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905–2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society
Six. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism
Seven. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics
Eight. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism
Nine. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil
Ten. Religion and Analytic Naturalism
Eleven. Buchler’s Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology
Twelve. Neglected American Phi los o phers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism
Thirteen. The Future of American Philosophy
Fourteen. What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism
Fifteen. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss
Sixteen. Deep Conceptual Play in William James
Seventeen. Reflections on Civil Disobedience
Eighteen. The American Mind
Nineteen. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist’s Understanding of America’s Social Problems
Twenty. Values of the American Intellectual Class
Notes
Index
american philosophy
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9780823266777
082326677X
9780823264353
0823264351
9780823264339
0823264335
OCLC:
904741229

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