Pragmatism and classical American philosophy : essential readings and interpretive essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stuhr, John J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
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.