Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The American pragmatists The American pragmatists Konvitz, Milton Ridvas Includes writings on pragmatism by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., George Herbert Mead, Percy W. Bridgman, C.I. Lewis, Horace M. Kallen, Sidney Hook, and, especially, William James, … OL1223270W
Reconstructing individualism Reconstructing individualism James M. Albrecht "Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers William James and John Dewey, and Afri… OL16239956W
Pragmatic reasons Pragmatic reasons Jeremy Randel Koons We daily classify actions by their morality and their voluntariness, and beliefs by their rationality. But in light of persistent skepticism about morality, free will, and (to a lesser extent) episte… OL19896124W
Pragmatism old & new Pragmatism old & new Robert Lane,Susan Haack "Susan Haack's anthology presents a broad and diverse selection of pragmatist writings, classical and contemporary, reformist and revolutionary, ranging from logic, metaphysics, theory of inquiry, ph… OL20545976W
Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense Robert E. Innis "Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation - the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics).". … OL3961143W
Between saying and doing Between saying and doing Robert Brandom "Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of li… OL511347W
A Natural History of Pragmatism A Natural History of Pragmatism Joan Richardson Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of… OL5258938W
Living Across and Through Skins Living Across and Through Skins Shannon Sullivan "What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical su… OL5833782W
Walking blues Walking blues Tim Parrish "Who or what is an American? Many scholars have recently argued that in a country of such vast cultural and ethnic diversity as the United States it is not useful or even possible to talk of a single… OL7797918W