(H/B) A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICA

Παρουσίαση

In a book as long as this one, there is considerable danger that one may become lost among the trees and never find the forest. It may therefore be helpful to the reader to have a preliminary indication of some of our major findings. Surveying the career of philosophy in America, perhaps the most striking characteristic of this history is the complexity and intimacy of the relationships among science, religion, and philosophy. So complex and so intimate have been these ties that it is often unclear what if any distinction can be made among them. If the impetus for change has more often come from the sciences, particularly in such cases as the Newtonian and Darwinian revolutions, still religious movements such as the Great Awakening have also had important philosophic consequences, and philosophy has often served as a mediator or synthesizer of the two. But there are also cases-e.g., Locke-in which it is impossible to say whether one is dealing with philosophy or science, and cases-e.g., Emerson-in which it is impossible to say whether one is dealing with philosophy or religion; here the very distinctions seem of dubious value. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

VOLUME I
Preface
Introduction
1. Early American Philosophy: The Puritans
2. The Impact of Science
3. Jonathan Edwards
4. Philosophy in Academia Revisited - Mainly Princeton
5. Philosophy in the Middle Atlantic and Southern States - Metaphysics and Morals
6. Philosophy in New England - Logic
7. Transcendentalism
Index
VOLUME II
8. The Absolute Immigrates to America: The St. Louis Hegelians
9. The Evolutionary Controversy
10. Charles Sanders Peirce
11. William James, the Tough-Minded: An Appraisal
12. Josiah Royce
13. George Santayana: The Exile at Home
14. Dewey: Battling Against Dualisms
15. C. I. Lewis: Conceptualistic Pragmatism
Epilogue
Appendix: George Herbert Mead
Index