Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary VitalitySandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman, Douglas R. Anderson University of Illinois Press, 1999 - 263 Seiten This collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers--Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead--on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society. Pragmatism emerged as a characteristically American response to an inheritance of British empiricism. Presenting a radical reconception of the nature of experience, pragmatism represents a belief that ideas are not merely to be contemplated but must be put into action, tested and refined through experience. At the same time, the American pragmatists argued for an emphasis on human community that would offset the deep-seated American bias in favor of individualism. Far from being a relic of the past, pragmatism offers a dynamic and substantive approach to questions of human conduct, social values, scientific inquiry, religious belief, and aesthetic experience that lie at the center of contemporary life. This volume is an invaluable introduction to a school of thought that remains vital, instructive, and provocative. |
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Peirces Guess at the Riddle of Rationality Deliberative Imagination as the Personal Locus of Human Practice | 15 |
William Jamess Pragmatism Purpose Practice and Pluralism | 31 |
From the Biological to the Logical John Deweys Logic as a Theory of Inquiry | 45 |
Mead Behavior and the Perceived World | 59 |
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIAL LIFE | 73 |
Peirce Inquiry as Social Life | 75 |
James Sympathetic Apprehension of the Point of View of the Other | 85 |
Dewey Pragmatic Technology and Community Life | 99 |
James Religion and Individuality | 146 |
John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Human Existence | 160 |
Mead The Nature of Rights | 174 |
CREATIVITY EXPERIENCE AND THE WORLD | 191 |
Evolutionary Realism and Charles Peirces Pragmatism | 193 |
James Experience and Creative Growth | 209 |
Dewey Creative Intelligence and Emergent Reality | 224 |
Mead The Many Faces of Processive Creativity | 237 |
Mead Social Experience and the Individual | 120 |
QUALITY VALUE AND NORMATIVE CONDITIONS | 135 |
Peirce Ethics and the Conduct of Life | 137 |
Contributors | 249 |
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