Research Catalog

Title

The American philosophers / editors, Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein ; consulting editor, Bruce Silver.

Publication

Boston, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• French, Peter A.
• Wettstein, Howard K.
• Silver, Bruce S.

Description

vi, 395 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This volume features papers by outstanding scholars who are known for their work on specific figures of American Philosophy from the colonial period through the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Midwest studies in philosophy, 0363-6550 ; v. 28

Uniform Title

• Journal of social philosophy.
• Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 28.

Subject

• Philosophers > United States
• Philosophy, American
• Philosophes > États-Unis
• Philosophie américaine
• Filosofen
• 7.150

Note

• "A supplement to the Journal of social philosophy"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Learning is the handmaid of the Lord : Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), reason, and the life of the mind / Allen C. Guelzo -- George Ripley (1802-1880) and miracles : external evidence versus internal conviction / Bruce Silver -- The radical political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) : an essay in retrieval / Richard K. Matthews -- James Madison (1751-1836) / George W. Carey -- Emerson (1803-1882) on the realization of freedom / Gustaaf Van Cromphout -- Thoreau's (1817-1862) lakes of light : modes of representation and the enactment of philosophy in Walden / H. Daniel Peck -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) : patriotism in time of war / Scott L. Pratt -- The principle of pragmatism : Peirce's (1839-1914) formulations and examples / Christopher Hookway -- James (1842-1910) on the nonconceptual / Russell B. Goodman -- William James (1842-1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952) : the odd couple / Richard M. Gale -- Experience as experimental and reconstructed realism : an interwoven core of Mead's (1863-1931) philosophy / Sandra Rosenthal -- The difference God makes (Josiah Royce, 1855-1916) / John Lachs -- C. I. Lewis (1883-1964) on the given and its interpretation / Laurence BonJour -- On Quine's (1908-2000) rejection of intensional entities / Michael Jubien -- Denying a dualism : Goodman's (1906-1998) repudiation of the analytic/synthetic distinction / Catherine Z. Elgin -- Ryleans and outlookers : Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) on "mental states" / Jay F. Rosenberg -- Equal liberty for all? (John Rawls, 1921-2002) / Thomas Pogge -- What Nozick (1938-2002) did for decision theory / David Schmidtz and Sarah Wright -- On Kripke (1940- ) and statements / G. W. Fitch -- Donald Davidson (1917-2003) / Ernest LePore and Kirk Ludwig -- Freedom to break the laws (David Lewis, 1941-2001) / Peter van Inwagen -- Putnam's (1926- ) retreat : some reflections on Hilary Putnam's changing views about metaphysical necessity / Bob Hale -- David Kaplan (1933- ) on De Re belief / Erin L. Eaker.

ISBN

• 1405119241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781405119245 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004052909

OCLC

• ocm56085807
• 56085807 56731833
• SCSB-5329214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries