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Pragmatism with Purpose : Selected Writings / Peter Hare, Douglas R. Anderson, Steven A. Miller; ed. by Joseph Palencik.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823264322
  • 9780823264346
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 144.3
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Autobiographical Occasions -- Part I. The Ethics of Belief -- One. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe -- Two. William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief -- Three. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief -- Part II. Reflections on Classical Pragmatism -- Four. A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality -- Five. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society -- Six. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism -- Part III. Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism -- Seven. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics -- Eight. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism -- Part IV. The Philosophy of Religion -- Nine. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil -- Ten. Religion and Analytic Naturalism -- Eleven. Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology -- Part V. Philosophy Past and Future -- Twelve. Neglected American Phi los o phers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism -- Thirteen. The Future of American Philosophy -- Part VI. Poetry -- Fourteen. What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism -- Fifteen. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss -- Sixteen. Deep Conceptual Play in William James -- Part VII. Social Critique -- Seventeen. Reflections on Civil Disobedience -- Eighteen. The American Mind -- Nineteen. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems -- Twenty. Values of the American Intellectual Class -- Notes -- Index -- american philosophy
Summary: Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on "holistic pragmatism" that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Autobiographical Occasions -- Part I. The Ethics of Belief -- One. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe -- Two. William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief -- Three. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief -- Part II. Reflections on Classical Pragmatism -- Four. A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality -- Five. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society -- Six. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism -- Part III. Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism -- Seven. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics -- Eight. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism -- Part IV. The Philosophy of Religion -- Nine. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil -- Ten. Religion and Analytic Naturalism -- Eleven. Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology -- Part V. Philosophy Past and Future -- Twelve. Neglected American Phi los o phers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism -- Thirteen. The Future of American Philosophy -- Part VI. Poetry -- Fourteen. What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism -- Fifteen. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss -- Sixteen. Deep Conceptual Play in William James -- Part VII. Social Critique -- Seventeen. Reflections on Civil Disobedience -- Eighteen. The American Mind -- Nineteen. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems -- Twenty. Values of the American Intellectual Class -- Notes -- Index -- american philosophy

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Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on "holistic pragmatism" that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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