Marsoobian / Ryder The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4296-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Philosophy Guides

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the mostambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought.
* * Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought inAmerica.
* Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leadingscholars in American philosophy.
* Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- andtwentieth-century philosophical movements in America includingidealism, pragmatism and naturalism.
* Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophicalthought.
* Includes useful bibliographies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marsoobian, Armen T.

Ryder, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Preface.
Editors' Introduction.
PART I: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS.
1. Early American Philosophy (John Ryder).
2. Idealism in American Thought (Douglas Anderson).
3. The First Pragmatists (Joseph Margolis).
4. Naturalism (Michael Eldridge).
PART II. MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.
5. C.S. Peirce, 1839-1914 (Vincent Colapietro).
6. William James, 1842-1910 (William J. Gavin).
7. Josiah Royce, 1855-1916 (Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ).
8. George Santayana, 1863-1952 (Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.).
9. John Dewey, 1859-1952 (Larry A. Hickman).
10. George Herbert Mead, 1863-1931 (Mitchell Aboulafia).
11. Jane Addams, 1860-1935 (Charlene Haddock Seigfried).
12. W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 (Shannon Sullivan).
13. Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 (John W. Lango).
14. C.I. Lewis, 1883-1964 (Sandra B. Rosenthal).
15. Suzanne K. Langer, 1895-1985 (Richard E. Hart).
16. Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000 (Peter T. Manicas).
17. Alain L. Locke, 1885-1954 (Leonard Harris).
18. Justus Buchler, 1914-1991 (Kathleen Wallace).
PART III. MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.
19. Community and Democracy (James Campbell).
20. Knowledge and Action: American Epistemology (Scott L.Pratt(.
21. Religion (William D. Dean).
22. Education (Nicholas C. Burbules, Bryan Warnick, TimothyMcDonough, and Scott Johnston).
23. Art and the Aesthetic (Armen T. Marsoobian).
Epilogue: Editor's Note.
Epilogue: The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy (JohnJ. McDermott).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at SouthernConnecticut State University. He is co-editor of JustusBuchler's Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (withKathleen Wallace, 1990) and of Nature's Perspectives:Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (with Kathleen Wallace andRobert S. Carrington, 1991). He is editor-in-chief of the Blackwelljournal Metaphilosophy.
John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy, Director of theOffice of International Programs, and Director of the Center onRussia and the United States at The State University of New York.He is author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studiesof the History of American Thought (1999), editor ofAmerican Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century(1994), and co-editor of The Philosophical Writings ofCadwallader Colden (with Scott L. Pratt, 2002).