The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21623-0 (ISBN)
The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the most ambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought.
Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought in America.
Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leading scholars in American philosophy.
Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical movements in America including idealism, pragmatism and naturalism.
Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophical thought.
Includes useful bibliographies.
Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is co-editor of Justus Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (with Kathleen Wallace, 1990) and of Nature’s Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (with Kathleen Wallace and Robert S. Carrington, 1991). He is editor-in-chief of the Blackwell journal Metaphilosophy. John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Office of International Programs, and Director of the Center on Russia and the United States at The State University of New York. He is author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought (1999), editor of American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century (1994), and co-editor of The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (with Scott L. Pratt, 2002).
Notes on Contributors. Preface.
Editors’ Introduction.
PART I: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS.
1. Early American Philosophy (John Ryder).
2. Idealism in American Thought (Douglas Anderson).
3. The First Pragmatists (Joseph Margolis).
4. Naturalism (Michael Eldridge).
PART II. MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.
5. C.S. Peirce, 1839-1914 (Vincent Colapietro).
6. William James, 1842-1910 (William J. Gavin).
7. Josiah Royce, 1855-1916 (Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ).
8. George Santayana, 1863-1952 (Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.).
9. John Dewey, 1859-1952 (Larry A. Hickman).
10. George Herbert Mead, 1863-1931 (Mitchell Aboulafia).
11. Jane Addams, 1860-1935 (Charlene Haddock Seigfried).
12. W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 (Shannon Sullivan).
13. Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 (John W. Lango).
14. C.I. Lewis, 1883-1964 (Sandra B. Rosenthal).
15. Suzanne K. Langer, 1895-1985 (Richard E. Hart).
16. Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000 (Peter T. Manicas).
17. Alain L. Locke, 1885-1954 (Leonard Harris).
18. Justus Buchler, 1914-1991 (Kathleen Wallace).
PART III. MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.
19. Community and Democracy (James Campbell).
20. Knowledge and Action: American Epistemology (Scott L. Pratt(.
21. Religion (William D. Dean).
22. Education (Nicholas C. Burbules, Bryan Warnick, Timothy McDonough, and Scott Johnston).
23. Art and the Aesthetic (Armen T. Marsoobian).
Epilogue: Editor’s Note.
Epilogue: The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy (John J. McDermott).
Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.12.2003 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Philosophy Guides |
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 762 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-21623-5 / 0631216235 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-21623-0 / 9780631216230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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