This is the first collective study of the development of philosophy in America, from the 18th century to the present. Leading experts examine distinctive features of American philosophy, trace notable themes, and consider the legacy of key figures. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in modern philosophy or American intellectual history. INDICE: 1: Roger Ward: Jonathan Edwards and 18th Century Religious Philosophy; 2: Russell B. Goodman: Emerson, Romanticism and Classical American Pragmatism; 3: Douglas Anderson: Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections; 4: Henry Jackman: William James; 5: Matthew Festenstein: John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics and Democracy; 6: Kelly Parker: Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism,Pragmatism; 7: Glenn Tiller: George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized; 8: Cornelis De Waal: A Pragmatist Wordview: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act; 9: Mitchell Aboulafia: W.E.B. Dubois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy and the Critical Turn; 10: Robert Westbrook: The Pragmatist Family Romance; 11: Cheryl Misak: The Reception of Early American Pragmatism; 12:John Lango: Whitehead's Metaphysical System; 13: Joseph Heath: Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism; 14: Robert Talisse: Pragmatism and the Cold War; 15: Chris Hookway: Pragmatism and the Given: C.I. Lewis, Quine and Peirce; 16: Arif Ahmed: W. V. Quine; 17: Alan Richardson: Philosophy of Science in America; 18: Hanjo Glock: The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy;19: Mark Lance: Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy in the21st Century; 20: Bjorn Ramberg: Rorty, Davidson and the Future of Metaphysics in America; 21: Scott Soames: Analytic Philosophy in America; 22: Danielle Macbeth: Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics; 23: Kok-Chor Tan: Liberal Equality: What, Where and Why; 24: Brian Bix: Legal Philosophy in America; 25: Brad Hooker: American Moral Philosophy; 26: Ann Garry: Essences, Intersections and American Feminism
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959247-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 656
- Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés