Pragmatism and classical American philosophy : essential readings and interpretive essays /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2000.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Classical American Philosophy / John J. Stuhr 1
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Introduction: "Emerson," a Memorial Address / William James 13
- American Scholar 17
- Self-Reliance 27
- II. Classical American Philosophy
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Indroduction: "Emerson," a memorial address / William James
- Some Consequences of Four Incapacities 54
- Fixation of Belief 67
- How to Make Our Ideas Clear 77
- Doctrine of Necessity Examined 88
- Categories and the Study of Signs 97
- What Pragmatism Is 105
- Issues of Pragmaticism 116
- A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God 126
- William James
- Introduction / John J. McDermott
- Types of Philosophic Thinking 151
- Stream of Thought 161
- A World of Pure Experience 181
- What Pragmatism Means 193
- Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life 203
- Dilemma of Determinism 215
- Will to Believe 230
- Josiah Royce
- Introduction / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
- Temporal and the Eternal 259
- Body and the Members 275
- Will to Interpret 287
- Loyalty to Loyalty, Truth, and Reality 300
- Loyalty and Religion 316
- Provincialism 326
- George Santayana
- Introductions / John Lachs
- Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy 348
- Some Meanings of the Word "Is" 359
- Scepticism 368
- Essence 371
- Substance 381
- Teleology and Psyche 388
- Hypostatic Ethics 397
- Implied Being of Truth 403
- Nature of Spirit 407
- Liberation 415
- John Dewey
- Introduction / John J. Stuhr
- Need for a Recovery of Philosophy 445
- Postulate of Immediate Empiricism 445
- Experience and Philosophic Method 460
- Existence as Preearious and Stable 471
- Nature, Communication and Meaning 476
- Pattern of Inquiry 482
- Education as Growth 491
- Lost Individual 498
- Search for The Great Community 504
- Live Creature and Aesthetic Experience 518
- Faith and Its Object 530
- George Herbert Mead
- Introduction / James Campbell
- Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol 555
- Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol 559
- Meaning 563
- Nature of Reflective Intelligence 567
- Nature of Scientific Knowledge 572
- Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other 581
- "I" and the "Me" 589
- Philosophical Basis of Ethics 592
- Realism, Pragmatism, and Science 598
- Present as the Locus of Reality 606
- III. Contexts
- Feminism and the Writings of American Women
- Introduction / Charlene Haddock Seigfried
- Jane Addams: Charitable Effort 631
- American Idealism and Personalism
- Introduction / Thomas O. Buford
- Borden Parker Bowne: The Failure of Impersonalism 653
- African-American Philosophy
- Introduction / Leonard Harris
- Alain Locke: The Ethics of Culture 671
- Alain Locke: Values and Imperatives 676
- American Naturalism
- Introduction / John Ryder
- John Herman Randall, Jr.: Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature 696.