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This monograph presents a unitary account of Dewey’s philosophy of science and demonstrates the relevance for contemporary debates. The book is written from a theoretical angle and explains Dewey's ……続きを見る

Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to……続きを見る

In "The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment," David Grayson embarks on a poignant journey exploring the theme of personal fulfillment and contentment in the face of modern life's complexiti……続きを見る

Maak een feest van je depressie is een filosofisch boek voor mensen die door een fundamenteel andere bril naar depressie willen kijken. En wat kun je eigenlijk dóen als je brein blijft rondzwemmen i……続きを見る

Die Corona-Pandemie hat die Gesellschaft abrupt verändert – und ihre Folgen werden lange nachwirken. Zu Beginn beherrschte die Expertise der Virologie die öffentliche Debatte. Angesichts der Tragwei……続きを見る

First published in 1907, "Pragmatism", a philosophical work by American philosopher William James, is an exploration of what is known as the pragmatic method, designed as a way to reconcile the clai……続きを見る

Lucian of Samosata's De Dea Syria, (the Syrian Goddess) is one of the most 'notorious' classical writings. Not only does it acknowledge that at one time a paramount Goddess was worshipped in regions……続きを見る

The book makes a new contribution to the contemporary debates on nihilism and the sacred. Drawing on an original interpretation of Richard Rorty’s writings, it challenges the orthodox treatment of n……続きを見る

First published in 1902, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James, a psychologist and philosopher who taught at Harvard, contains, in edited form, a series of natural theology lectur……続きを見る

En contraste con el escepticismo y el relativismo radicalizados que caracterizan nuestra época, los autores defienden la tesis de que las ciencias, tanto las que procuran desentrañar los misterios d……続きを見る

Célèbre écrit de Descartes à l'origine du cartésianisme. Pensée qui s'appuie sur une méthode scientifique en opposition aux vérités révélées. 続きを見る

In Rationalist Pragmatism: A Framework for Moral Objectivism, Mitchell Silver draws from a wide array of philosophical fields to formulate a comprehensive theory of ethics. He argues that an underst……続きを見る

Most contemporary philosophers would call themselves naturalists, yet there is little consensus on what naturalism entails. Long signifying the notion that science should inform philosophy, debates ……続きを見る

The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that in……続きを見る

The Hidden God revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought. By reaching as far back as the Calvinist arguments of the America……続きを見る

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, c……続きを見る

Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead f……続きを見る

Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and soci……続きを見る

Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech act……続きを見る

Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contempora……続きを見る

Moral relativism is deeply troubling for those who believe that, without a set of moral absolutes, democratic societies will devolve into tyranny or totalitarianism. Engaging directly with this clai……続きを見る

Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, ……続きを見る

Over the last four decades, John Dewey’s pragmatist philosophy has formed an intellectual core in design research, underpinning Donald Schön’s theory of reflective practice, the experiential perspec……続きを見る

Edición crítica que expone de manera cabal y cronológica las ideas centrales de la filosofía de Charles Sanders Peirce, el mejor exponente del pragmatismo y la semiótica del siglo XIX. Traducida al ……続きを見る

Edición crítica que expone de manera cabal y cronológica las ideas centrales de la filosofía de Charles Sanders Peirce, el mejor exponente del pragmatismo y la semiótica del siglo XIX. Traducida al ……続きを見る

This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religionーthe mainstream approac……続きを見る

This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in con……続きを見る

Is postmodernity over? Does postmodernism still have anything important to say? Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern argues “yes” to both. Despite the claims of a number of ……続きを見る

Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing unhappiness. In The Cost of Comfort, Lachs contempla……続きを見る

In unsicheren Zeiten wächst die Sehnsucht nach einfachen Antworten. Da kommt ein Denken gerade recht, das die Lösung aller Probleme verspricht und Widersprüche ausschließt. Computer-Logik nennt Rebe……続きを見る