Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists (eBook)

Experience and Reality

Brian G. Henning, Joseph D. John, William T. Myers (Herausgeber)

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2015
252 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9032-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists.

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Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead's writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This volume questions the wisdom of that separation, exploring their connections, both historical and in application. The essays in this volume embody original and creative work by leading scholars that not only furthers the understanding of American philosophy, but seeks to advance it by working at the intersection of experience and reality to incite novel and creative thought. This exploration is long overdue. Specific questions that are addressed are: Is Whitehead a pragmatist? What contrasts and affinities exist between American pragmatism and Whitehead's thought? What new questions, strategies, and critiques emerge by juxtaposing their distinct perspectives?

Autor

Brian G. Henning is professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University.William T. Myers is professor of philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College. Joseph D. John is a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Inhalt

1 Is Whitehead a Pragmatist? On the Pragmatic Elements in Whitehead’s Metaphysics, William T. Myers2 Ultimate Good Sense: Whitehead’s Ontological Fallibilism, George Allan3 Whitehead’s Pragmatic Epistemology, Joseph D. John4 Prefiguring Whitehead: Reading Jamesian Pragmatism with Stengers and Latour, Steven Meyer5 Whitehead’s Speculative Contribution to Praxis: Praxis and American Philosophy, Thomas M. Jeannot6 Contingency All the Way Down: Whitehead Among the Pragmatists, Nancy Frankenberry7 Whitehead’s “Rescue” of American Anti-Intellectualism: The Question of Pragmatism, Scott Sinclair8 Surprise, Event, and the Problem of Novelty: A Comparison Between C. S. Peirce and A. N. Whitehead, Maria Regina Brioschi9 Creative Love: Eros and Agape in Peirce and Whitehead, Brian G. Henning10 DNA: A Process View, Michael Brady11 The Habit of Art: Whitehead, Aesthetics, and Pragmatism, Nicholas Gaskill12 A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead’s Analysis of Religious Experience, Eleonora Mingarelli13 Transition, Transmutation, and Transfiguration: Notes for a Poetics of Experience, Vincent Colapietro14 Feeling Forming Forward: Ecstasis and Experience in Process-Pragmatic Perspective, Jude Jones

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Co-Autor: George Allan, Eleonora Mingarelli, Scott Sinclair, Michael Brady, Maria Regina Brioschi, Vincent M. Colapietro, Nancy Frankenberry, Nicholas Gaskill, Thomas M. Jeannot, Jude Jones, Steven Meyer
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Alfred North Whitehead • American Philosophy • C.S. Peirce • History of Philosophy • Isabella Stengers • John Dewey • Metaphysics • Pragmatism • Process Philosophy • William James
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9032-6 / 0739190326
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9032-6 / 9780739190326