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Companion to pragmatism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shook, John R. (Editor), Margolis, Joseph (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester West Sussex Blackwell. 2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction:pragmatism,retrospective and prospective--part 1--major figures---Charles Sanders Peirce--William James--F C S Schiller and European pragmatism--John Dewey--George Herbert Mead--Jane Addams--Alain L Locke--C I Lewis--W V Quine--Hilary Putnam--Jurgen Habermas--Richard Rorty--Part II transforming philosophy--not cynicism,but synechism--Peirce and Cartesian rationalism--James,empiricism and absolute idealism--Hegel and realism--Dewey,Dualism and naturalism--expressivism and Mead's social self--marxism and critical theory--philosophical hermeneutics--language,mind and naturalism in analytic philosophy--feminism--pluralism,relativism and historicism--experience as freedom--Part III-Culture and nature--pragmatism as anti-authoritarianism--intelligence and ethics--democracy and value enquiry--liberal democracy--pluralism and deliberative democracy--philosophy as education--creativity and society--religious empiricism and naturalism--aesthetics--aesthetic experience and the neurobiology of inquiry--cognitive science--inquiry,deliberation and method--pragmatic idealism and metaphysical realism--scientific realism,anti-realism and empiricism