Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary Vitality

by Douglas R. Anderson

Book Overview

This collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers - Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead - on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society. Pragmatism emerged as a characteristically American response to an inheritance of British empiricism. Presenting a radical reconception of the nature of experience, pragmatism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252024540
• ISBN13: 9780252024542
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"