Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy

Timothy M Mosteller

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 14
• Relativism about knowledge or truth has always provoked the ire of philosophers. Ever since Protagoras declared in antiquity that "man is the measure ... Lees meer

Reality and Its Appearance

Nicholas Rescher

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 8
• In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and h... Lees meer

The Legacy of John Rawls

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 12
• John Rawls was unquestionably the most important moral and political philosopher of the last one hundred years. His A Theory of Justice published in 1... Lees meer

Quine's Naturalism

Paul A Gregory

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 9
• W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that em... Lees meer

John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality

Joshua Rust

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 11
• John Searle (1932-) is one of the most famous living American philosophers. A pupil of J. L. Austin at Oxford in the 1950s, he is currently Mills Prof... Lees meer

Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

John W Woell

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 1
• In this book, John W. Woell shows us how contemporary readings of American Pragmatism founded on mistakenly used categories of the Analytic tradition ... Lees meer

The Varieties of Pragmatism

Douglas McDermid

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 15
• For much of the twentieth century, many Anglo-American philosophers supported three theses - one about reality, one about truth, and one about human k... Lees meer

Thomas Kuhn's Revolution

James A Marcum

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 13
• The influence of Thomas Kuhn (1922 -1996) on the history and philosophy of science has been truly enormous. In 1962, Kuhn's famous work, The Structure... Lees meer

Peirce's Philosophy of Communication

Mats Bergman

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 10
• Charles S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was also the architect of a remarkable theory of signs that continues to puzzle and inspire philosophers... Lees meer

Quine on Meaning

Eve Gaudet

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 6
• Willard Van Orman Quine was certainly the greatest analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in 1908, he held the Edgar P... Lees meer

Feminist Epistemology and American Pragmatism

Alexandra L Shuford

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 17
• Feminist philosophy identifies tensions within mainstream theories of knowledge. To create a more egalitarian epistemology, solutions to these problem... Lees meer

Reality and Its Appearance

Nicholas Rescher

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 8
• In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and h... Lees meer

Peirce's Pragmatic Theory of Inquiry

Elizabeth Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 5
• The philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is very important at every stage of the history of modern American thought. It informs William Ja... Lees meer

Nozick, Autonomy and Compensation

Dale F Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 7
• Famously and notoriously, Robert Nozick argues against the welfare state in Anarchy, State and Utopia. While many academics have severely criticized N... Lees meer

Quine's Naturalism

Paul A Gregory

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 9
• W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that em... Lees meer

America's First Women Philosophers

Dorothy G Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 18
• The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858, becoming more influential as women joined and influenced its development. Susan... Lees meer

Pragmatist Metaphysics

Sami Pihlström

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 3
• Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a 'f... Lees meer

The Varieties of Pragmatism

Douglas McDermid

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 15
• For much of the twentieth century, many Anglo-American philosophers supported three theses - one about reality, one about truth, and one about human k... Lees meer

Peirce's Philosophy of Communication

Mats Bergman

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 10
• Charles S. Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was also the architect of a remarkable theory of signs that continues to puzzle and inspire philosophers... Lees meer

The Legacy of John Rawls

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 12
• John Rawls was unquestionably the most important moral and political philosopher of the last one hundred years. His A Theory of Justice published in 1... Lees meer

After Rorty

G Elijah Dann

• Hardcover | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 16
• Trained by some of the most eminent philosophers of the twentieth century, Richard Rorty has come to be one of the strongest critics of the philosophi... Lees meer

After Rorty

G Elijah Dann

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 16
• Trained by some of the most eminent philosophers of the twentieth century, Richard Rorty has come to be one of the strongest critics of the philosophi... Lees meer

Feminist Epistemology and American Pragmatism

Alexandra L Shuford

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 17
• Feminist philosophy identifies tensions within mainstream theories of knowledge. To create a more egalitarian epistemology, solutions to these problem... Lees meer

Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy

Timothy M Mosteller

• Paperback | Engels | Continuum Studies in American Philosophy | nr. 14
• Relativism about knowledge or truth has always provoked the ire of philosophers. Ever since Protagoras declared in antiquity that "man is the measure ... Lees meer