Author: HARE, PETER H. [AUTHOR]. PALENCIK, JOSEPH [EDITOR]. ANDERSON, DOUGLAS R. [EDITOR]. MILLER, STEVEN A. [EDITOR]
Title: Pragmatism with purpose : selected writings / Peter Hare ; edited by Joseph Palencik, Douglas R. Anderson, and Steven A. Miller
Description: New York : Fordham University Press 2015. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Series; American philosophy series. Edition; First edition. Physical description; xi. 325 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown? Vincent Colapietro Autobiographical Occasions A Brief Autobiography. -- Editing American Philosophy. -- Reflections on the Career of John J. McDermot. Part I: Ethics of Belief 1. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe (with Peter Kauber) 2. William James. Dickinson Miller and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief (with Edward H. Madden) 3. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief Part II: Reflections on Classical Pragmatism 4. A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality (with Edward H. Madden) 5. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society 6. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism Part III: Naturalism. Holism. Contextualism 7. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics 8. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism Part IV: Religion 9. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil (with Edward H. Madden) 10. Religion and Analytic Naturalism 11. Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology (with John Ryder) Part V: Philosophy. Past. Present. and Future 12. Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Interactionism (with John Lincourt) 13. The Future of American Philosophy Part VI: Poetry 14. What Are Poets for? Contextualism and Pragmatism 15. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss 16. Deep Conceptual Play in William James Part VII: Social Critique 17. Reflections on Civil Disobedience (with Edward H. Madden) 18. The American Mind 19. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems 20.Values of the American Intellectual Class Notes. Index. Summary; Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare. a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on GCGBPholistic pragmatismGC[yen] 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. Subjects; Pragmatism. Philosophy. American. Western philosophy. Philosophy / Movements / Pragmatism. Pragmatism ; American philosophy. Genre; Bibliography. Weight in Kg appr.:

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