books about: pragmatism     books:     Pragmatism      Pragmatism William James NuVision Publications, 2007 Essential to Understanding Contemporary Philosophies I rate this work 5 stars because of its immense influence on today's common ways of thinking and its importance in understanding the rise of science and capitalism in America. James challenges philosophers of all ilks to give us a net value to their systems; that is, ...             William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience / Pragmatism / A Pluralistic ... William James Library of America, 1988 William James in the Library of America The great philosopher and psychologist William James (1842 -- 1910) is best-known as the founder, with C.S. Peirce and John Dewey, of the distinctively American philosophy of pragmatism. James is that indeed, but he is much more as well. This volume of the Library of ...             The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913 Charles S. Peirce Indiana University Press, 1998             Philosophy and Social Hope Richard Rorty Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000 Today's word is "panrelationalism" Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, though excellent, is dense, and assumes a lot of knowledge of Western philosophical traditions. This book, by contrast, is pretty straightforward, and has excellent prose. Rorty argues once again for social constructionism, ...             Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature Richard Rorty Princeton University Press, 1981 Smashing the Mirror of Nature "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" is Richard Rorty's magnum opus, his manifesto for a new philosophy and a new philosophical language. Taking aim at some thousands of years of philosophical tradition, Rorty argues that the concept of representation ought to be ...             Status Anxiety Alain De Botton Vintage, 2005 Important Satire Status Anxiety as coined by Alain de Botton, is probably one of the most important aspects of modern western life, as it is propably one of the greatest causes for unhappiness in us modern supermarket folk. His book dives deep into this issue, and shows how the lack ...             Between Past and Future (Penguin Classics) Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn Penguin Classics, 2006 More vitamins than a semester full of the "usual texts" Notice inside the parenthesis next to the title it says (20th century classics). That's because this work belongs to that rank. I first read this book back when I was in grad school, and have used it as a reference ever since. If a 'classic' -- if we may dare use such ...             The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Brilliant, ambitious, dense The Metaphysical Club is a brilliant, ambitious book - the chronicle of pragmatism's rise as a governing philosophy in the decades following the Civil War. But for all its virtues, I'm surprised this book won the Pulitzer Prize. This is pretty dense stuff. Despite ...             How Judges Think Richard A. Posner Harvard University Press, 2008 Brlliant and fun analysis of how judges actually decide cases This man is *cold*. Fortunately for the reader, it is this icy wit that makes reading Posner's books such a joy. Watch how he rips into inconsistencies: 'In discussing a case that invalidated the exclusion of homosexuals from the military, Beatty approvingly remarks ...             Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism Robert B. Brandom Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Carrying Coals to Newcastle Via A Rube Goldberg Contraption As far as I can tell and I browsed through this book, this book is extremely obscure, is that Brandom is arguing that one should make reasoned arguments in light of normative committments. Basically Brandom apparently told a large audience of philosphers at Oxford that ...             Democracy and Social Ethics Jane Addams University of Illinois Press, 2001 An Empathetic Look At the Plight of Early 20th Century Poverty-Stricken Immigrants Hull House founder and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams spent twenty years working with the poverty-stricken immigrant poor in Chicago. She writes here with understated passion and unqualified empathy for their plight. Anyone who wants to know why we have a ...             The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine) Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2007 In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformations of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, ...             The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays Hilary Putnam Harvard University Press, 2004 Possibly Putnam's most important book? The fact/value dichotomy remains a standing dogma of contemporary empiricism. One sees it assumed without question in numerous works intended both for students and professional philosophers. (It is taken for granted, for instance, in Peter Singer's recent A Darwinian ...             Pragmatism: A Reader Louis Menand Vintage, 1997 Eye-openingly Good! This book is astounding! It manages to accomplish in around 500 pages the twin tasks of giving a functional outline of the rise and rise of pragmatic thought and also to give examples, old and new, of that same pragmatic thought. The three more well-known "founders" ...             The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 4, 1925 - 1953: 1929: The Quest for Certainty (Collected Works of John ... John Dewey Southern Illinois University Press, 2008 This volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey?s The Quest for Cer­tainty: A Study of the Relation Between Knowledge and Action. The book is made up of the Gifford Lectures deliv­ered April?May 1929 at the University of Edinburgh. Writing to Sidney Hook, Dewey described this work as ?a criti­cism of philosophy as attempting to at­tain ...          products you might be interested in search for books architectural, metaphysical, philosophical, philosophy, pluralistic, pragmatism      toavi.com    web we recommend Brilliant, ambitious, dense randomly chosen book: Courageous Leadership