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1 online resource (225 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum studies in American philosophy
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Continuum studies in American philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; No Running in the Hall ; The Hallway of Pragmatism ; 1 Realisms, Antirealisms, Nonrealisms, and Pragmatisms; The Confines of Rortian Pragmatism ; At the Looking-Glass ; Reading Pragmatism Analytically ; 2 Doubt, Skepticism, and Method ; The Skeptical Hypothesis and Radical Skepticism ; Responding Pragmatically to Radical Skepticism ; Pragmatism and Hume's Problems ; 3 Thoughts, Things, and Theories ; Kant and the Noumenon ; Contemporary Kantians ; Pragmatism-in-Itself ; Peirce, James, and Logic. |
| Summary |
In this book, John W. Woell shows us how contemporary readings of American Pragmatism founded on mistakenly used categories of the Analytic tradition have led to misreadings of Peirce and James. By focusing on terms drawn largely from Descartes and Kant, contemporary debates between metaphysical realists, antirealists, Realists and Nonrealists, have, argues Woell, failed to shed great light on pragmatism in general and a pragmatic philosophy of religion in particular. Woell contends that paying close attention to the internal relationships among inquiry, belief, and their objects in the resp. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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James, William, 1842-1910. |
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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914. |
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James, William. |
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Peirce, Charles S. |
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Pragmatism.
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Pragmatism. |
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Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, American. |
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20th century |
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Philosophy, American -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Woell, John W. Peirce, James, and a pragmatic philosophy of religion. London; New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, ©2012 viii, 215 pages Continuum studies in American philosophy 9781472524133 |
| ISBN |
9781441117007 (e-book) |
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1441117008 (e-book) |
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9781472524133 |
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9781441168009 (hardcover) |
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1441168001 (hardcover) |
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9781441111203 (epub) |
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1441111204 (epub) |
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