The Relevance of Philosophy to Life

John Lachs

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• With The Relevance of Philosophy to Life , eminent American philosopher John Lachs reminds us that philosophy is not merely a remote subject of academ... Lees meer

Making Morality

Todd Lekan

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice... Lees meer

Emphatics

Paul Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Defining an "emphatic" as an intrusion that alters the import of what it intrudes on, Weiss sets the stage for an exquisitely systematic, speculative ... Lees meer

In Love with Life

John Lachs

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Offers clear and instructive wisdom on how love of life enriches and drives human existence, even in the face of inevitable sadness, loss, and death. ... Lees meer

Dewey's Logical Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Despite the resurgence of interest in the philosophy of John Dewey, his work on logical theory has received relatively little attention. Ironically, D... Lees meer

The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce

John Clendenning

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Infuses the first, highly acclaimed edition with new material that deepens our understanding of this distinguished American philosopher. Lees meer

Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom

Vincent Colapietro

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, develo... Lees meer

Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons

Charles Hartshorne, Edgar Sheffield Brightman

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• In 1922 Charles Hartshorne, then an aspiring young philosopher, wrote to Edgar Sheffield Brightman, a preeminent philosopher of religion and one of th... Lees meer

The Making Morality

Todd Lekan

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice... Lees meer

Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics

Andrew Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Peirce's Scientific Metaphysics is the first book devoted to understanding Charles Sanders Peirce's (1839-1914) metaphysics from the perspective of th... Lees meer

Beyond Realism and Antirealism

David L Hildebrand

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in recent times has been the extraordinary renaissance of Pragmatism, marked most nota... Lees meer

The Habits of Hope

Patrick Shade

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• In this original contribution to the American philosophical tradition, Patrick Shade makes a strong argument for the necessity of hope in a cynical wo... Lees meer

Beyond Realism and Antirealism

David L Hildebrand

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Perhaps the most significant development in American philosophy in recent times has been the extraordinary renaissance of Pragmatism, marked most nota... Lees meer

Elements of Knowledge

Arthur Franklin Stewart

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• An original and ingenious introduction to the basic, experimental, trial-and-error process by which we acquire and validate facts and beliefs and thro... Lees meer

Thought and Character of William James

Ralph Barton Perry

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1936 This out- of-print classic returns, in a new paperback edition, through the Vanderbilt Library of A... Lees meer

Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

John R Shook

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, cri... Lees meer

William James's Springs of Delight

Phil Oliver

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• This enterprising book, written in the spirit of William James, urges our appreciation of the intensely personal character of spiritual transcendence.... Lees meer

Thinking in the Ruins

Michael P Hodges, John Lachs

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayana (1863-1952) may never have met or even have studied one another's work, they experienced si... Lees meer

Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality

John R Shook

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• The ongoing revival of interest in the work of American philosopher and pragmatist John Dewey has given rise to a burgeoning flow of commentaries, cri... Lees meer

A William Ernest Hocking Reader

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and in his day second only to John Dewey in the breadth of... Lees meer

The Unity of William James's Thought

Wesley Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Wesley Cooper opposes the traditional view of William Jamesís philosophy which dismissed it as fragmented or merely popular, arguing instead that ther... Lees meer

Intensity

Judith a Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• A challenging, iconoclastic study that makes clear the underlying unity of Whitehead's vision of the world. This important and provocative book on the... Lees meer

A William Ernest Hocking Reader

• Paperback | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• Leading Harvard philosophy professor William Ernest Hocking (1873-1966), author of 17 books and in his day second only to John Dewey in the breadth of... Lees meer

Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom

Vincent Colapietro

• Hardcover | Engels | Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
• John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, develo... Lees meer