The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the most ambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought. Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought in America. Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leading scholars in American philosophy. Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical movements in America including idealism, pragmatism and naturalism. Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophical thought. Includes useful bibliographies.

Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. He is co-editor of Justus Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (with Kathleen Wallace, 1990) and of Nature’s Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (with Kathleen Wallace and Robert S. Carrington, 1991). He is editor-in-chief of the Blackwell journal Metaphilosophy.

John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Office of International Programs, and Director of the Center on Russia and the United States at The State University of New York. He is author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought (1999), editor of American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century (1994), and co-editor of The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (with Scott L. Pratt, 2002).

Notes on Contributors

viii

Preface

xiv

Editors' Introduction

xv

Part I Historical Traditions

1

(72)

1 Early American Philosophy

3

(19)

John Ryder

2 Idealism In American Thought

22

(13)

Douglas Anderson

3 The First Pragmatists

35

(17)

Joseph Margolis

4 Naturalism

52

(21)

Michael Eldridge

Part II Major Figures in American Philosophy

73

(214)

5 C.S. Peirce, 1839-1914

75

(26)

Vincent Colapietro

6 William James, 1842-1910

101

(16)

William J. Gavin

7 Josiah Royce, 1855-1916

117

(18)

Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ

8 George Santayana, 1863-1952

135

(20)

Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr

9 John Dewey, 1859-1952

155

(19)

Larry A. Hickman

10 George Herbert Mead, 1863-1931

174

(12)

Mitchell Aboulafia

11 Jane Addams, 1860-1935

186

(13)

Charlene Haddock Seigfried

12 W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963

199

(11)

Shannon Sullivan

13 Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947

210

(16)

John W. Lango

14 C.I. Lewis, 1883-1964

226

(13)

Sandra B. Rosenthal

15 Susanne K. Langer, 1895-1985

239

(8)

Richard E. Hart

16 Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000

247

(16)

Peter T. Manicas

17 Alain L. Locke, 1885-1954

263

(8)

Leonard Harris

18 Justus Buehler, 1914-1991

271

(16)

Kathleen Wallace

Part III Major Themes in American Philosophy

287

(108)

19 Community and Democracy

289

(17)

James Campbell

20 Knowledge and Action: American Epistemology

306

(19)

Scott L. Pratt

21 Religion

325

(18)

William D. Dean

22 Education

343

(21)

Nicholas C. Burbules, Bryan Warnick, Timothy McDonough, and Scott Johnston

23 Art and the Aesthetic

364

(33)

Armen T. Marsoohian

Epilogue: Editors' Note

395

(2)

Epilogue: The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy

397

(10)

John J. McDermott

Index

407

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