Pragmatism with purpose : selected writings /
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| Author / Creator: | Hare, Peter H., author. |
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| Uniform title: | Essays. Selections |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2015. |
| Description: | xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American philosophy American philosophy series (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10169235 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown?
- Autobiographical Occasions
- A Brief Autobiography
- Editing American Philosophy
- Reflections on the Career of John J. McDermott
- Part I. The Ethics of Belief
- 1. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe
- 2. William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief
- 3. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief
- Part II. Reflections on Classical Pragmatism
- 4. A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality
- 5. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society
- 6. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism
- Part III. Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism
- 7. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics
- 8. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism
- Part IV. The Philosophy of Religion
- 9. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil
- 10. Religion and Analytic Naturalism
- 11. Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology
- Part V. Philosophy Past and Future
- 12. Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism
- 13. The Future of American Philosophy
- Part VI. Poetry
- 14. What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism
- 15. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss
- 16. Deep Conceptual Play in William James
- Part VII. Social Critique
- 17. Reflections on Civil Disobedience
- 18. The American Mind
- 19. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems
- 20. Values of the American Intellectual Class
- Notes
- Index
