Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy

Royce, Sellars, and Rorty
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-57023-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy

American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers’ work spanned the range of twentieth-century philosophy, both historically and conceptually, but all had common concerns about how morality functions and what we can hope for in our interactions with others. Steven Miller argues that Royce, Sellars, and Rorty form a traditional line of inheritance, with the thought of each developing upon the best insights of the ones prior. Furthermore, he shows how three divergent views about the function, possibilities, and limits of moral community coalesce into a key narrative about how best we can work with and for other people, as we strive to come to think of widely different others as somehow being morally considerable as "one of us."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Steven A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘We’: The Dangerous Thing. 1. Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty. 2. The Sellarsian Ethical Framework. 3. Richard Rorty’s Quasi-Sellarsian We. 4. On the Prospects of Redescribing Rorty Roycely

Über Autor(innen)

Steven A. Miller is a fellow with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as well as an adjunct scholar at Ripon College in Ripon, WI. His work has previously appeared in the Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Administration and Society, and the Journal of Social Philosophy.