Stagoll / Levine Pragmatism Applied

William James and the Challenges of Contemporary Life
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7338-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stagoll, Clifford S.

Levine, Michael P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Pragmatism Pragmatic
Clifford S. Stagoll and Michael P. Levine

Part I. Issues: Putting James to Work

1. Listening to “the Cries of the Wounded”: Jamesian Reflections on the Impasse over Gun Control
James M. Albrecht

2. Revisiting the Social Value of College Breeding
Loren Goldman

3. What Makes the Lives of Livestock Significant?
Erin McKenna

4. Significant Lives and Certain Blindness: William James and the Disability Paradox
Nate Jackson

5. Pragmatism and Progress: Has There Been Progress in Race Relations in the United States?
Damian Cox and Michael P. Levine

Part II. Theory: Clearing The Way

6. Applying Jamesian Pragmatism to Moral Life: Against “Applied Ethics”
Sami Pihlström

7. Understanding Experience with William James
John Ryder

8. James and the Minimal Self
Yumiko Inukai

Part III. Practice: Living with James

9. William James and the Woods
Douglas R. Anderson

10. Taking James to Work: Pragmatism for Managers
Clifford S. Stagoll

11. Habits in a World of Change
James Campbell

List of Contributors
Index
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clifford S. Stagoll is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Michael P. Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. His books include Thinking through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (coauthored with Damian Cox).