Pragmatism and the European Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatism and the European Traditions write by Maria Baghramian. This book was released on 2017-12-06. Pragmatism and the European Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The turn of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of two distinct philosophical schools in Europe: analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual hostility. What is often left out of this history, however, is the relationship between the two European schools and a third significant philosophical event: the birth and development of pragmatism, the indigenous philosophical movement of the United States. Through a careful analysis of seminal figures and central texts, this book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between these three revolutionary philosophical traditions. The essays in this volume aim to show the central role that pragmatism played in the development of philosophical thought at the turn of the twentieth century, widen our understanding of a seminal point in the history of philosophy, and shed light on the ways in which these three schools of thought continue to shape the theoretical agenda of contemporary philosophy.
Pragmatism's Advantage
Pragmatism's Advantage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatism's Advantage write by Joseph Margolis. This book was released on 2010-01-29. Pragmatism's Advantage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Joseph Margolis offers a modified pragmatism as the best way out of this stalemate. Whether he is examining Heidegger or rethinking the foibles of Dewey, Rorty, and Peirce, much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophy comes into play as Margolis presents his history of philosophy's evolution and defends his views. He does not, however, mean for philosophy to turn to the pragmatism of yore or even to its revival in the 1970s. Rather, he finds in recent approaches to pragmatism a middle ground between analytic philosophy's scientism (and its disinterest in analyzing human nature)and continental philosophy's reliance on attributing transcendental powers to mere mortals.
Native Pragmatism
Native Pragmatism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native Pragmatism write by Scott L. Pratt. This book was released on 2002-04-01. Native Pragmatism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy. Pragmatism has been at best only partially understood by those who focus on its European antecedents. This book casts new light on pragmatism's complex origins and demands a rethinking of African American and feminist thought in the context of the American philosophical tradition. Scott L. Pratt demonstrates that pragmatism and its development involved the work of many thinkers previously overlooked in the history of philosophy.
Pragmatism and Social Philosophy
Pragmatism and Social Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatism and Social Philosophy write by Michael G. Festl. This book was released on 2023-05. Pragmatism and Social Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role that American pragmatism played in the development of social philosophy in 20th-century Europe.
Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism
Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2017-05-31. Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the complexity of two philosophical traditions, extending from their origins to the current developments in neopragmatism. Chapters deal with the first encounters of these traditions and beyond, looking at metaphysics and the Vienna circle as well as semantics and the principle of tolerance. There is a general consensus that North-American (neo-)pragmatism and European Logical Empiricism were converging philosophical traditions, especially after the forced migration of the European Philosophers. But readers will discover a pluralist image of this relation and interaction with an obvious family resemblance. This work clarifies and specifies the common features and differences of these currents since the beginning of their mutual scientific communication in the 19th century. The book draws on collaboration between authors and philosophers from Vienna, Tübingen, and Helsinki, and their networks. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars in the history of philosophy, philosophers of science, pragmatists and beyond.
