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1 online resource (xiii, 642 pages) |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Jonathan Edwards and eighteenth-century religious philosophy / Roger A. Ward -- Emerson, Romanticism, and classical American pragmatism / Russell B. Goodman -- Peirce and pragmatism : American connections / Douglas Anderson -- William James / Henry Jackman -- John Dewey : inquiry, ethics, and democracy / Matthew Festenstein -- Josiah Royce : idealism, transcendentalism, pragmatism / Kelly A. Parker -- George Santayana : ordinary reflection systematized / Glenn Tiller -- A pragmatist world view : George Herbert Mead's philosophy of the act / Cornelis de Waal -- W.E.B. Du Bois : double-consciousness, Jamesian sympathy, and the critical turn / Mitchell Aboulafia -- The pragmatist family romance / Robert Westbrook -- The reception of early American pragmatism / Cheryl Misak -- Whitehead's metaphysical system / John W. Lango -- Thorstein Veblen and American social criticism / Joseph Heath -- Pragmatism and the Cold War / Robert Talisse -- Pragmatism and the given : C.I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce / Chris Hookway -- W.V. Wuine / Arif Ahmed -- Philosophy of science in America / Alan Richardson -- The influence of Wittgenstein on American philosophy / Hans-Johann Glock -- Placing in a space of norms : neo-Sellarsian philosophy in the twenty-first century / Mark Lance -- Rorty, Davidson, and the future of metaphysics in America / Bjørn Ramberg -- Analytic philosophy in America / Scott Soames -- Logic and the foundations of mathematics / Danielle Macbeth -- Liberal equality : what, where, and why / Kok-Chor Tan -- Legal philosophy in America / Brian H. Bix -- American moral philosophy / Brad Hooker -- Essences, intersections, and American feminism / Ann Garry |
| Summary |
The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy presents the first collective study of the development of philosophy in North America, from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. Twenty-six leading experts examine distinctive features of American philosophy, trace notable themes, and consider the legacy and influence of notable figures, such as Emerson, James and Dewey |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, American.
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Philosophy, American.
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Philosophie
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Filosofie.
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Philosophie -- Amérique du Nord.
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Filosofi.
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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USA.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Misak, C. J. (Cheryl J.)
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| ISBN |
0191577022 |
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9780191577024 |
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0191551287 |
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9780191551284 |
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