Pragmatic Naturalism

Author : Matthew C. Bagger
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543859
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatism and Naturalism written by Matthew C. Bagger and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 over naturalism often hinge on how broadly or narrowly the terms nature and science are defined. The founding figures of American Pragmatism—C. S. Peirce (1839–1914), William James (1842–1910), and John Dewey (1859–1952)—developed a distinctive variety of naturalism by rejecting reductive materialism and instead emphasizing social practices. Owing to this philosophical lineage, pragmatism has made original and insightful contributions to the study of religion as well as to political theory. In Pragmatism and Naturalism, distinguished scholars examine pragmatism’s distinctive form of nonreductive naturalism and consider its merits for the study of religion, democratic theory, and as a general philosophical orientation. Nancy Frankenberry, Philip Kitcher, Wayne Proudfoot, Jeffrey Stout, and others evaluate the contribution pragmatism can make to a viable naturalism, explore what distinguishes pragmatic naturalism from other naturalisms on offer, and address the pertinence of pragmatic naturalism to methodological issues in the study of religion. In parts dedicated to historical pragmatists, pragmatism in the philosophy and the study of religion, and pragmatism and democracy, they display the enduring power and contemporary relevance of pragmatic naturalism.

Author : S. Morris Eames
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308033
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Naturalism written by S. Morris Eames and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1977-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that America came of age intellectually with the appearance of the pragmatic movement in philosophy. Pragmatic Naturalism presents a selective and interpretative overview of this philosophy as developed in the writings of its intellectual founders and chief exponents—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey. Mr. Eames groups the leading ideas of these pragmatic naturalists around the general fields of “Nature and Human Life,” “Knowledge,” “Value,” and “Education,” treating the primary concerns and special emphasis of each philosopher to these issues. Philosophy students, teachers of philosophy, and general readers will find this book a comprehensive overview of American philosophy.

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879755928
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism written by Paul Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurtz (philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo; editor, Free inquiry; and president, Prometheus Books) collects his essays, articles, and contributions to books written over the past thirty-five years. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : S. Morris Eames
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809382733
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Naturalism written by S. Morris Eames and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1977-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that America came of age intellectually with the appearance of the pragmatic movement in philosophy. Pragmatic Naturalism presents a selective and interpretative overview of this philosophy as developed in the writings of its intellectual founders and chief exponents—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Herbert Mead, and John Dewey. Mr. Eames groups the leading ideas of these pragmatic naturalists around the general fields of “Nature and Human Life,” “Knowledge,” “Value,” and “Education,” treating the primary concerns and special emphasis of each philosopher to these issues. Philosophy students, teachers of philosophy, and general readers will find this book a comprehensive overview of American philosophy.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Naturalism & Realism written by John R. Shook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatism, the philosophy native to America, has once again grown to prominence in philosophical debate around the world. Today, the type of pragmatism that is proving to be of greatest value for fostering discussions with other worldviews is pragmatic naturalism. The fourteen provocative essays in this original collection are all by philosophers who describe themselves as pragmatic naturalists and who are active in the present-day revival of American pragmatism. Pragmatic naturalism, like all varieties of pragmatism, steers clear of the extreme intellectualism too often found in philosophy. Pragmatic naturalism stresses that genuine inquiry must be conducted in a consistently empirical manner and be responsive to real human problems. It also contends that the sciences and their methodologies are superior to other modes of inquiry into the human environment. Despite the curious fact that pragmatism is often taken to be opposed to realism, the essays in this volume assert the interdependence of pragmatism with some type of realistic metaphysical stance. As such they advance the debates over the question of realism by uncovering and investigating the deepest assumptions running through recent Anglo-American philosophy. This excellent collection of high-quality essays on a resurgent school of American philosophy will be of interest to philosophers as well as scholars in the natural and social sciences.

Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : Richard J. Bernstein
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Naturalism written by Richard J. Bernstein and published by Richard J. Bernstein. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard J. Bernstein argues that despite the apparent chaotic debates about naturalism, there has recently been a series of powerful arguments that support a version of naturalism that is in the spirit of John Dewey’s pragmatic naturalism. After presenting a sketch of Dewey’s pragmatic naturalism, he critically examines the works of a variety of thinkers—Robert Brandom, John McDowell, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philip Kitcher, Bjorn Ramberg, David Macarthur, Steven Levine, Mark Johnson, Robert Sinclair, Huw Price, and Joseph Rouse—to show how they have contributed analytic finesse to the articulation of Dewey’s vision of pragmatic naturalism. As Bernstein shows, Dewey’s philosophical legacy is very much alive today in some of the best recent philosophic discussions.

Author : Richard J Bernstein
Publisher : Richard J. Bernstein
ISBN 13 : 9780578730479
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Naturalism written by Richard J Bernstein and published by Richard J. Bernstein. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard J. Bernstein argues that despite the apparent chaotic debates about naturalism, there has recently been a series of powerful arguments that support a version of naturalism that is in the spirit of John Dewey's pragmatic naturalism. After presenting a sketch of Dewey's pragmatic naturalism, he critically examines the works of a variety of thinkers-Robert Brandom, John McDowell, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Philip Kitcher, Bjorn Ramberg, David Macarthur, Steven Levine, Mark Johnson, Robert Sinclair, Huw Price, and Joseph Rouse-to show how they have contributed analytic finesse to the articulation of Dewey's vision of pragmatic naturalism. As Bernstein shows, Dewey's philosophical legacy is very much alive today in some of the best recent philosophic discussions.Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York.

Author : Victor Anderson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791494861
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Theology written by Victor Anderson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic Theology argues for a vision of religious life that is derived from the tradition of American pragmatism (James, Dewey, Royce); empirical theology (Chicago School, D.C. Macintosh, H. Richard Niebuhr); and American philosophy of religion (Stone, Frankenberry, Corrington). The author argues that there is a divine reality in human experience that when encountered gives meaning and value to a person's need for cultural fulfillment and to his or her religious need for self-transcendence. The book commends the openness of nature, the world, and human experience to creative transformation and growth. It supports the increase of human capacities to create morally livable and fulfilling communities, the enhancement of the free play of interpretation, and a social order where democratic utopian expectations are envisioned and actualized.

Author : Marie I. Kaiser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110324881
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philip Kitcher written by Marie I. Kaiser and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Kitcher has deeply influenced many of the current debates in the philosophy of biology. He has also made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, to ethics, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of mathematics, and, most recently, to pragmatism. This volume results from the 15th Münster Lectures in Philosophy. It contains an original article by Kitcher and eight critical papers on a wide range of topics.

Author : John Ryder
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823244687
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Things in Heaven and Earth:An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism written by John Ryder and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-twentieth century, specifically, the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is called Columbia Naturalism: John Dewey, John Herman Randall, Jr., and Justus Buchler. The book argues for the philosophical value and usefulness of this underappreciated tradition for a number of contemporary theoretical and practical issues, such as the modernist/postmodernist divide and debates over philosophical constructivism. Pragmatic naturalism offers a distinctive ontology of constitutive relations. Relying on Buchler's ordinal ontology and on the relationality implicit in Dewey's instrumentalism, the book gives a detailed an account of this approach, in chapters that deal with issues in systematic ontology, epistemology, constructivism and objectivity, philosophical theology, art, democratic theory, foreign policy, education, humanism, and cosmopolitanism.