Contemporary Pragmatism

Author : Hugh P. McDonald
Publisher : Editions Rodopi
Page : 256 pages
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Release : 2012-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789401208406

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Pragmatism and Environmentalism by Hugh P. McDonald Pdf

The growing literature on Environmental Ethics has ballooned into a separate sub-field within philosophy, involving ethical studies concerning the value of other species, of ecosystems, and of the environment of all living things as a whole. Some consider Environmental Ethics to be a revolution in ethics which will completely change the human-centered orientation of morals and reorient it to include all species, ecosystems or the larger biosphere. This volume explores pragmatist approaches to ethics that can be used for environmental issues. Pragmatism may provide both a more defensible theory of non-anthropomorphic and intrinsic value than other ethical schools, and, more generally, supply an alternative model of what environmental philosophy could be. The holism of pragmatists constitutes a challenge to value and ethics centered in the individual, and a useful ground for more holistic theories of value which, some have argued, is more suitable to an environmental, as opposed to a humane, ethic. The authors of this bookOCOs chapters defend their understandings of pragmatism in the course of explaining contemporary ways to reconstruct central foundations to environmental ethics."

Author : Mitchell Aboulafia
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042032880

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Contemporary Pragmatism by Mitchell Aboulafia Pdf

Contents Articles Frederic R. Kellogg: Hobbes, Holmes, and Dewey: Pragmatism and the Problem of Order Brian E. Butler: Dews, Dworks, and Poses Decide Lochner Sor-hoon Tan: Our Country Right or Wrong: A Pragmatic Response to Anti-Democratic Cultural Nationalism in China Stephen Harris: Antifoundationalism and the Commitment to Reducing Suffering in Rorty and Madhyamaka Buddhism Eric Thomas Weber: On Applying Ethics: Who's Afraid of Plato's Cave? William Gavin, Stefan Neubert, and Kersten Reich: Language and Its Discontents: William James, Richard Rorty, and Interactive Constructivism Matthew J. Brown: Genuine Problems and the Significance of Science Robert Chodat: Evolution and Explanation: Biology, Aesthetics, Pragmatism Joseph Margolis: Pragmatism's Future: A Touch of Prophecy Review Essay Brian E. Butler: Sen's The Idea of Justice: Back to the (Pragmatic) Future Book Reviews Tibor Solymosi: Review of Jay Schulkin. Cognitive Adaptation: A Pragmatist Perspective

Author : John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042021228

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Contemporary Pragmatism by John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli Pdf

Author : John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042017074

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Contemporary Pragmatism 2 by John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli Pdf

Covers pragmatism and philosophy.

Author : John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldell, Jr.
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042021785

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Contemporary Pragmatism Issue 2 by John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldell, Jr. Pdf

Author : David Rondel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190680688

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Pragmatist Egalitarianism by David Rondel Pdf

Pragmatist Egalitarianism' argues that a deep impasse plagues philosophical egalitarianism. It sets forth a conception of equality rooted in American pragmatist thought-specifically William James, John Dewey, and Richard Rorty-that successfully mediates that impasse.

Author : Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042025653

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Contemporary Pragmatism Volume 5 Number 2, December 2008 by Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook Pdf

Contents Rosa Maria MAYORGA: Rethinking Democratic Ideals in Light of Charles Peirce Lara M. TROUT: ¿Colorblindness¿ and Sincere Paper-Doubt: A Socio-political Application of C. S. Peirce¿s Critical Common-sensism James R. WIBLE: The Economic Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce James Ronald STANFIELD and Michael C. CARROLL: The Pragmatist Legacy in American Institutionalism Mike O¿CONNOR: The Limits of Liberalism: Pragmatism, Democracy and Capitalism Dwayne A. TUNSTALL: Cornel West, John Dewey, and the Tragicomic Undercurrents of Deweyan Creative Democracy Eric Thomas WEBER: Religion, Public Reason, and Humanism: Paul Kurtz on Fallibilism and Ethics Jerome A. POPP: John Dewey¿s Ethical Naturalism Book Notes David BOERSEMA: Pragmatism and Reference. Robert BRANDOM: Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism. Larry A. HICKMAN: Pragmatism as Post-postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey. Mark JOHNSON: The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding.

Author : Mitchel Aboulafia,John R. Shook
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401210058

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Contemporary Pragmatism. Volume 10, Number 1, June 2013. by Mitchel Aboulafia,John R. Shook Pdf

Contents Bryan G. Norton: Leopold, Hadley, and Darwin: Darwinian Epistemology, Truth, and Right Wouter de Been and Sanne Taekema: What Piece of Work is Man? Frans de Waal and Pragmatist Naturalism Nicholas Rescher: The Pragmatics of Betterment Claudio Marcelo Viale: Royce and Bernstein on Evil Barry Allen: Postmodern Pragmatism and Skeptical Hermeneutics: Richard Rorty and Odo Marquard Seth Vannatta: The Logic of Relevance in Independent School Education: A Pragmatic Critique Andrew F. Smith: Talisse¿s Epistemic Justification of Democracy Reconsidered Giovanni Maddalena: A Synthetic Pattern: Figural and Narrative Identity Review essay Mary Magada-Ward Engaging with Philosophy¿s ¿Limit-Defying Provocateur¿: A Review of Shusterman¿s Pragmatism: Between Literature and Somaesthetics

Author : Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042028210

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Contemporary Pragmatism. Volume 6, Number 2. December 2009 by Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook Pdf

Contents Articles Lawrence Cahoone: Local Naturalism Mark Dietrich Tschaepe: Pragmatics and Pragmatic Considerations in Explanation Stephen S. Bush: Nothing Outside the Text: Derrida and Brandom on Language and World Scott F. Aikin: Prospects for Peircean Epistemic Infinitism Guy Axtell and Philip Olson: Three Independent Factors in Epistemology Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy: John Dewey on Happiness: Going Against the Grain of Contemporary Thought Jay Schulkin: Life Experiences and Educational Sensibilities Discussion J. Caleb Clanton and Andrew T. Forcehimes: Can Peircean Epistemic Perfectionists Bid Farewell to Deweyan Democracy? Robert B. Talisse: Reply to Clanton and Forcehimes

Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674058088

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Perspectives on Pragmatism by Robert Brandom Pdf

Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. This book, by one of todayÕs most distinguished contemporary heirs of pragmatist philosophy, rereads cardinal figures in that tradition, distilling from their insights a way forward from where we are now. Perspectives on Pragmatism opens with a new accounting of what is living and what is dead in the first three generations of classical American pragmatists, represented by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post-Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. SellarsÕ legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, Richard Rorty, who further developed JamesÕs and DeweyÕs ideas within the professional discipline of philosophy and once more succeeded, as they had, in showing the more general importance of those ideas not only for intellectuals outside philosophy but for the wider public sphere. The book closes with a clear description of the authorÕs own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad pragmatism with its dominant philosophical rival, analytic philosophy, which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its origins and its promise for tomorrow.

Author : Clayton Chin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231547994

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The Practice of Political Theory by Clayton Chin Pdf

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory, Clayton Chin presents a critical reconstruction of the work of Richard Rorty that intervenes in the current surge of methodological debates in political thought, arguing that Rorty provides us with unrecognized tools for resolving key foundational issues. Chin illustrates the significance of Rorty’s thought for contemporary political thinking, casting his conception of “philosophy as cultural politics” as a resource for new models of sociopolitical criticism. He juxtaposes Rorty’s pragmatism with the ontological turn, illuminating them as alternative interventions in the current debate over the crisis of foundations in philosophy. Chin places Rorty in dialogue with continental philosophy and those working within its legacy. Focused on both important questions in pragmatist scholarship and central issues in contemporary political thought, The Practice of Political Theory is an important response to the vexed questions of justification and pluralism.

Author : John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042023710

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Contemporary Pragmatism Issue 2 by John R. Shook,Paulo Ghiraldelli Pdf

"Contemporary Pragmatism" is an interdisciplinary, international journal for discussions of applying pragmatism, broadly understood, to today's issues. CP will consider articles about pragmatism written from the standpoint of any tradition and perspective. CP especially seeks original explorations and critiques of pragmatism, and also of pragmatism's relations with humanism, naturalism, and analytic philosophy. CP cannot consider submissions that principally interpret or critique historical figures of American philosophy, although applications of past thought to contemporary issues are sought. CP welcomes contributions dealing with current issues in any field of philosophical inquiry, from epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and action, to the areas of theoretical and applied ethics, aesthetics, social & political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of the social sciences. CP encourages work having an interdisciplinary orientation, establishing bridges between pragmatic philosophy and, for example, theology, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, economics, medicine, political science, or international relations. Two issues each year will be published, in the summer and winter seasons.

Author : Clifford S. Stagoll,Michael P. Levine
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473376

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Pragmatism Applied by Clifford S. Stagoll,Michael P. Levine Pdf

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life. William James, one of America’s most original philosophers and psychologists, was concerned above all with the manner in which philosophy might help people to cope with the vicissitudes of daily life. Writing around the turn of the twentieth century, James experienced firsthand, much as we do now, the impact upon individuals and communities of rapid changes in extant values, technologies, economic realities, and ways of understanding the world. He presented an enormous range of practical recommendations for coping and thriving in such circumstances, arguing consistently that prospects for richer lives and improved communities rested not upon trust in spiritual or material prescriptions, but rather on clear thinking in the cause of action. This volume seeks to demonstrate how James’s astonishingly rich corpus can be used to address contemporary issues and to establish better ways for thinking about the moral and practical challenges of our time. In the first part, James’s theories are applied directly to issues ranging from gun control to disability, and the ethics of livestock farming to the meaning of “progress” in race relations. The second part shows how James’s theories of ethics, experience, and the self can be used to “clear away” theoretical matters that have inhibited philosophy’s deployment to real-world issues. Finally, part three shows how individuals might apply ideas from James in their personal lives, whether at work, contemplating nature, or considering the implications of their own habits of thought and action. “This book is the first sustained attempt to take James’s call for a lived philosophy at face value, both exploring the extent of James’s own philosophical project and furthering it in ever new directions. As is clear from the reading of the various contributions, we are given a taste of what Jamesian philosophy might or should achieve rather than merely presenting what it promises to deliver. And this is clearly novel and extremely intriguing.” — Sarin Marchetti, author of Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James

Author : Russell B. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000143324

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Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman Pdf

Russell Goodman examines the curious reemergence of pragmatism in a field dominated in the past decades by phenomenology, logic, positivism, and deconstruction. With contributions from major contemporary and classical thinkers such as Cornel West, Richard Rorty, Nancy Fraser, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Russell has gathered an impressive chorus of philosophical voices that reexamine the origins and complexities of neo-pragmatism. The contributors discuss the relationship of pragmatism and literary theory, phenomenology, existentialism, and the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. They question the meaning of pragmatics, what it is to be practical, and ask provocative questions such as: what is reading? and whether democracy is a precondition for the functioning of intelligence. This work places this reemergent and interesting neo-development in its proper context and will provide readers with a strong sense of the movement's foundations, history, and subtlities.

Author : Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789042026575

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Contemporary Pragmatism by Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook Pdf