American philosophy : a historical anthology
Barbara MacKinnon (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
This anthology demonstrates the richness and diversity of the American intellectual heritage. In it we see how Jonathan Edwards grapples with the problem of how to reconcile freedom and responsibility with Calvinist religious beliefs; how Franklin and Jefferson exemplified American enlightenment thought; and how the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, formulated their particular romantic idealist beliefs. A second and significant portion of the anthology is devoted to Pragmatism. Substantive excerpts from Peirce, James and Dewey, as well as Royce, are collected here. A third part is devoted to other Twentieth-Century American philosophies...[including] early Process Philosophy, Phenomenology, Positivism, and Language Philosophies. Selections from such philosophers as Whitehead, Weiss, Buchler, Gurwitsch, Sellars, Quine, Davidson, and Rawls, along with many others are included in this part. A final chapter is devoted to twentieth-century American Moral Philosophy--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©1985
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1985
xv, 688 pages ; 24 cm
9780873959223, 9780873959230, 0873959221, 087395923X
10605097
The context of American philosophy / Marcus G. Singer
Charles Sanders Peirce / Vincent G. Potter
William James / Peter Jones
John Dewey / H.S. Thayer
George Herbert Mead: philosophy and the pragmatic self / James Campbell
George Santayana / T.L.S. Sprigge
Emerson and the virtues / Ellen Kappy Suckiel
Josiah Royce's philosophy of the community / John J. McDermott
Does American philosophy rest on a mistake? / Bruce Kuklick
Jonathan Edwards / Hans Oberdiek
C.I. Lewis / Susan Haack
The moral individualism of Henry David Thoreau / David L. Norton
American legal philosophy / Richard Tur
The philosophical background of the American Constitution(s) / Andrew J. Reck
Two American philosophers: Morris Cohen and Arthur Murphy / Marcus G. Singer