American Philosophy
Thinking Through the Imagination
John Kaag
An important scholarly contribution from the author of several trade books on philosophy that have reached a wide readership.
ISBN: 9781531501846
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Faith in Life
Donald J. Morse
This is the first book to consider John Dewey’s early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology....
ISBN: 9780823287062
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John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
Edited by Larry A. Hickman, Stefan Neubert and Kersten Reich
Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education,...
ISBN: 9780823251827
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Quantum Mechanics and the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
Michael Epperson
In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics.This ambitious book is the first...
ISBN: 9780823250127
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X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought
Nahum Dimitri Chandler
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of the African American as an object of discourse, knowledge, and general social practice, conceiving the focus of such a concern -- with W. E. B. Du Bois -- as forms of social and historical problems on an epochal scale, above all the global-level “problem of the color line,” as the mark of both historical limit and possibility.
ISBN: 9780823254071
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Freedom and Limits
John Lachs
Edited by Patrick Shade
Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. Working out of the American pragmatist tradition, the book aims to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life.
ISBN: 9780823256754
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Pets, People, and Pragmatism
Erin McKenna
This book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avoided, or benign. We need to find ways to relate respectfully. For respectful relationships to be a real possibility, though, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with whom they live, work, and play.
ISBN: 9780823251155
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Yes, But Not Quite
Dwayne A. Tunstall
This book contends that Josiah Royce bequeathed to philosophy a novel idealism based on an ethico-religious insight. This insight became the basis for an idealistic personalism, wherein the Real is...
ISBN: 9780823261659
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Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism
Larry A. Hickman
Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy—as a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights...
ISBN: 9780823228423
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Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems
Josiah Royce
Edited by Scott L. Pratt and Shannon Sullivan
In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before."...
ISBN: 9780823231331
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The Relevance of Royce
Edited by Kelly A. Parker and Jason Bell
The chapters, written by leading experts on American philosophy, reexamine Josiah Royce’s work as a resource for contemporary thought. Themes include: metaphysics, phenomenology, logic; problems of individualism, loyalty, and community; practical matters of race, religious faith, and feminist epistemology, and Royce’s place in the history of philosophy.
ISBN: 9780823255283
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The Gleam of Light
Naoko Saito
In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice...
ISBN: 9780823224630
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The Much-at-Once
Bruce W. Wilshire
In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James’s concept of the much-at-once to develop a holistic philosophy of the experiencing body, giving special attention to the importance of music, and engaging a rich array of thinkers and composers ranging from Jefferson and James to Beethoven and Mahler.
ISBN: 9780823268344
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Art and Morality
Morris Grossman and Martin A. Coleman
Considers the tension between art and morality in literature, artistic performance, economics, statecraft, and human rights; in religion, drama, sculpture, philosophical methodology, biography, and attitudes toward mortality; in the work of Gotthold Lessing, Lewis Carroll, Charles Peirce, Leo Tolstoy, William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Monroe Beardsley, and George Santayana.
ISBN: 9780823257232
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The Human Eros
Thomas M. Alexander
Studies in the philosophy of John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana and Native American philosophy that argue for an ecological, aesthetic form of philosophy.
ISBN: 9780823251216
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The Politics of Survival
Lara Trout
How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected...
ISBN: 9780823232963
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The Drama of Possibility
John J. McDermott
Edited by Douglas R. Anderson
This book traces the trajectory of John J. McDermott’s philosophical career through a selection of his essays. Many were originally occasional pieces and address specific issues in American thought...
ISBN: 9780823226634
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Philosophy Americana
Douglas R. Anderson
In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy—the Greek love of wisdom—is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains...
ISBN: 9780823225514
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The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
W. E. B. Du Bois
Edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays assembles essential essays by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois – thinker, writer, scholar, activist, leader – from half a dozen years on each side, respectively, of the turning of the twentieth century, from 1894 to early 1906. In this essays are the first formulations of some of Du Bois’s most famous ideas, namely, “the veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the “problem of the color line.” Clustered around the turn of the century, they comprise a kind of essential companion to The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches.
ISBN: 9780823254552
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Self, God and Immortality
Eugene Fontinell
Can we who have been touched by the scientific, intellectual, and experimental revolutions of modern and contemporary times still believe with and degree of coherence and consistency that we as individual...
ISBN: 9780823220717
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Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy
Beth J. Singer
"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes...
ISBN: 9780823218684
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The Metaphysics of Experience
Elizabeth Kraus
The Metaphysics of Experience styles itself as "a Sherpa guide to Process and Reality, whose function is to assist the serious reader in grasping the meaning of the text and to prevent falls into misinterpretation."...
ISBN: 9780823217960
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William James on the Courage to Believe
Robert J. O'Connell
William James’ celebrated lecture on “The Will to Believe” has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this lively reappraisal of that controversy, Father O’Connell contributes...
ISBN: 9780823217281
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Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives
Vincent G. Potter
This collection focuses primarily on Peirce’s realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism.Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives is available from the publisher on an...
ISBN: 9780823216161
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Charles S. Peirce
Vincent G. Potter
In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged, in the eyes of philosophers both in America and abroad, as one of America’s major philosophical thinkers. His work has forced us back to philosophical...
ISBN: 9780823217106
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