Catálogo de libros: Filosofía occidental, c. 1900-

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  • Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics
    Diana Heney
    This book argues that classical pragmatism offers a compelling and useful account of our engagement with moral life. The key arguments are first, that a broader reading of the pragmatist tradition than is usually attempted in the context of ethical theory is necessary; and second, that this broad reading offers resources that enable us to move forward in contemporary debates ab...
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    268,37 €

  • Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
    A. Mikkelsen
    In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx’s The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century. ...
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    48,02 €

  • Experience and Experimental Writing
    Paul Grimstad
    American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues, of earlier literary experiments in American literature. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and (contemporaneously with the flowering of pragmatism) Henry James,...
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    46,20 €

  • Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy
    Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant. This collection investigates the relationship between pragmatism, Kant, and current Kan...
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    267,76 €

  • Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics
    Beth Eddy / Beth L. Eddy / Beth LEddy
    This book details a pragmatic approach to the ethical and religious implications of a Darwinian perspective, drawing on the work of thinkers both secular and religious. The approach taken by James, Santayana, Addams, and Dewey should be of interest to scholars of religious naturalism and humanistic ethics. ...
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    125,32 €

  • Building a Social Democracy
    Robert Danisch
    Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices a...
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    157,76 €

  • Pragmatist Neurophilosophy
    John R. Shook
    Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, ...
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    64,05 €

  • Quine and His Place in History
    Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context. ...
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    132,82 €

  • Cognitive Complications
    Nicholas Rescher
    Cognitive Complications examines fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge from the perspective of philosophical pragmatism. Rescher seeks to show how a pragmatic, user-oriented approach to knowledge can elucidate key issues of the field. ...
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    141,65 €

  • Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James
    Sarin Marchetti
    Marchetti offers a revisionist account of James’s contribution to moral thought in the light of his pragmatic conception of philosophical activity. He sketches a composite picture of a Jamesian approach to ethics revolving around the key notion and practice of a therapeutic critique of one’s ordinary moral convictions and style of moral reasoning. ...
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    64,89 €

  • Recovering Integrity
    Stuart Rosenbaum
    This book brings integrity to the center of philosophical conversations about morality and traces its roots as a philosophical idea to the American pragmatist tradition. ...
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    125,22 €

  • Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience
    Jay Schulkin
    We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry demythologized. Think of it as foraging for coherence. ...
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    65,03 €

  • Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic
    Katya Mandoki
    This book offers a compelling account of the evolution of sensibility, weaving together Darwinian and biosemiotic theory. It works along non-anthropomorphic aesthetics of the appreciation and creation of beauty in nature as an end in itself which has practical benefit. ...
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    141,51 €

  • Humanity at the Crossroads
    Garth J. Hallett / Garth JHallett
    Humanity at the Crossroads attempts to answer questions regarding the effect of technological progress on our lives. This book concludes that the very technology which threatens to destroy us, not merely its more favorable offshoots, is itself the catalyst for that better world we may yet hope to inhabit. ...
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    32,18 €

  • Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism
    This interdisciplinary collection of original essays explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. This is the first book-length work to address the modern significance of the nexus of feminism and pragmatism. ...
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    59,52 €

  • Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists
    This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists. ...
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    133,14 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna / Scott L. Pratt
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    225,24 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    54,08 €

  • Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy
    The book presents a variety of philosophical and socio-political perspectives related to the relationship between persuasion and compulsion in democracy. It meets the need of the present time, in America and in Europe, to re-read and discuss the basic assumptions of democracy and the role of individual within it in the context of institutional persuasions that can become factua...
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    63,90 €

  • Dewey
    Steven Fesmire
    John Dewey (1859 - 1952) was the dominant voice in American philosophy through the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the nascent years of the Cold War. With a professional career spanning three generations and a profile that no public intellectual has operated on in the U.S. since, Dewey’s biographer Robert Westbrook accurately describes him as 'the most important philosoph...
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    294,83 €

  • Pragmatic Modernism
    Lisi Schoenbach
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    48,91 €

  • Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy and Pragmatism
    Recent work in the neurosciences and neurophilosophy has found resources in the philosophical tradition of pragmatism. This volume is the first to bring together active neuroscientists, neurophilosophers, and scholars to consider the prospects of a neuroscientifically-informed pragmatism and a pragmatically-informed neuroscience on issues ranging from the nature of mental life ...
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    64,70 €

  • Dewey
    Steven Fesmire
    In this superb introduction, Steven Fesmire begins with a chapter on Dewey’s life and works, before discussing and assessing Dewey’s key ideas across the major disciplines in philosophy; including metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, educational philosophy, and religious philosophy. ...
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    59,47 €

  • Believing Against the Evidence
    Miriam Schleifer McCormick
    In this book, McCormick argues that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs and actions are both products of agency. Two important implications of this thesis, both of which deviate from the dominant view in contemporary philosoph...
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    254,94 €

  • The Priority of Democracy
    Jack Knight / James Johnson
    Why democracy is the best way of deciding how decisions should be madePragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics. In The Priority of Democracy, Jack Knight and James Johnson systematically explore the subject and make a strong case for adopting a pragmatist...
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    40,09 €

  • Intentionality and the Myths of the Given
    Carl B Sachs
    'Sachs has written a perceptive and well-argued book about a set of verychallenging authors. If one wishes to understand the deepest issues that threadcurrent neo-pragmatist thought, one could do no better than to pick up Sachs’book.' -Steven Levine, The Philosophical Quarterly ...
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    268,24 €

  • Richard Rorty
    Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the rol...
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    64,26 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport
    The contributors to Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport argue that American pragmatism is particularly well suited analyze the experience and development of sport activities. This volume will be a valuable resource in any philosophy of sport class (undergraduate or graduate) or in a course on pragmatism; it will also be appropriate for kinesiology students. It will give read...
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    66,97 €

  • Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics
    This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have ...
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    47,39 €

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz
    Brandon C. Look
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz presents a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the life, thought and work of one of the great polymaths of the modern world, G.W. Leibniz.This guide enriches the reader’s understanding of Leibniz by establishing the philosophies of, and Leibniz’s reactions to, his most important philosophical contemporaries from Descartes to Maleb...
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    61,08 €