Practicing philosophy as experiencing life : essays on American pragmatism
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Practicing philosophy as experiencing life : essays on American pragmatism
(Value inquiry book series, v. 287 . Central European value studies)
Brill Rodopi, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism is a collection of texts written by top international experts on American philosophy. They consider various strands of American pragmatism from the viewpoint of practical philosophy, and provide the historical background and an outline of the international encounter with other philosophical traditions. Many key figures of American thought and pragmatist philosophy are discussed. The volume combines a panorama of approaches and gives a wide scope of problems: ethical, religious, social, political, cultural, ontological, cognitive, anthropological, and others, so as to show that pragmatism can be seen as a philosophy of life and as such it focuses on the life problems of contemporary humans in particular and of humanity in general.
Contributors are: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, John Lachs, Sami Pihlstroem , Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Kenneth W. Stikkers, and Emil Visnovsky
Table of Contents
AKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE by Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski
John Lachs: The Obligations of Philosophers
Emil Visnovsky: Prolegomena to Pragmatist Conception of the Good Life
Kenneth W. Stikkers: Practicing Philosophy in the Experience of Living: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the American Philosophical Tradition
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley: Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing and Improving Life
Sami Pihlstroem: Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition
Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski: Richard Rorty's Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of Humanism
INDEX
ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS
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