This collection of thirteen essays, when viewed together, offers a unique perspective on the history of American philosophy. It illuminates for the first time in book form, how thirteen major American philosophical thinkers viewed a problem of special interest in the American philosophical tradition: the relationship between experience and reflection. Written by well-known authorities on the figure about which he or she writes, the essays are arranged chronologically to highlight the changes and developments in thought from ...
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This collection of thirteen essays, when viewed together, offers a unique perspective on the history of American philosophy. It illuminates for the first time in book form, how thirteen major American philosophical thinkers viewed a problem of special interest in the American philosophical tradition: the relationship between experience and reflection. Written by well-known authorities on the figure about which he or she writes, the essays are arranged chronologically to highlight the changes and developments in thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism to Process Philosophy. While Doctrine and Experience will be of particular interest to specialists in American Philosophy, there is also much to offer anyone interested in the intellectual and cultural history of the United States. In order of appearance, the essays are: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening by John E. Smith Heart and Head: The Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Andrew J. Reck Emerson and the American Future by Robert C. Pollock Chauncey Wright and the Pragmatists by Edward Madden Charles S. Peirce: Action Through Thought - The Ethics of Experience by Vincent G. Potter Life Is in the Transitions' Radical Empiricism and Contemporary Concerns by John J. McDermott John Dewey and the Metaphysics of American Democracy by Ralph W. Sleeper Individualization and Unification in Sartre and Dewey by Thelma Z. Levine Josiah Royce: Anticipator of European Existentialism and Phenomenology by Jacqueline Ann K. Kegley The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought by John Lachs C. I. Lewis and the Pragmatic Tradition in American Philosophy by Sandra Rosenthal The Social Philosophy of George Herbert Mead by David Miller Existence as Transaction: A Whiteheadian Study of Causality by Elizabeth Kraus.
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