| Frontiers in American Philosophy Contributor(s): Burch, Robert W. (Editor), Saatkamp, Herman J., Jr. (Editor), McDermott, John J. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1585440019 ISBN-13: 9781585440016 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 191.2 |
| LCCN: 91019447 |
| Series: Frontiers in American Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.06" W x 9.12" (1.40 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To push the edges of the known, to look at the accepted in novel ways, is indeed to stand at the frontiers of a field. In Frontiers in American Philosophy thirty-five contemporary scholars explore classical American thought in bold new ways. An extraordinary range of issues and thinkers is represented in these pages--from such core themes as metaphysics and social philosophy, which receive primary attention, to some consideration of American philosophers' technical accomplishments in mathematical logic and philosophical analysis. The authors also offer new perspectives on the work of the leading American philosophers, including George Herbert Mead, William James, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Emma Goldman. Not surprisingly perhaps, a great deal of the discussion revolves, either directly or indirectly, around that great axis of intellectual issues commonly known as the "realism/idealism" controversy. It seems fitting that so much attention is devoted to the possibility of some sort of middle position between "external realism" and its antipode in some form of relativistic subjectivism. For, in the last analysis, such a middle position is for the American philosophers the core meaning of "pragmatism." |
