The American Philosophers, Volume XXVIII,9781405119245

The American Philosophers, Volume XXVIII

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405119245
ISBN10: 1405119241
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-27
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The American Philosophers contains papers by current leading philosophers and political theorists that explore the work of the major American philosophers from the colonial period to the present, from Jonathan Edwards to David Kaplan. The scope of this volume is both historically and philosophically broad as it encompasses the leading figures of the major schools of philosophy that have played significant roles in our intellectual history. Included are not only the famous pragmatists and the later twentieth-century analytic philosophers, but such shapers of the political and philosophical American scene as Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Emerson, and Jane Addams.

Author Biography

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books including Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns; Corporate Ethics; Responsibility Matters; Corporations in the Moral Community; The Spectrum of Responsibility; Collective and Corporate Responsibility; Corrigible Corporations and Unruly Laws; Ethics in Government; and The Scope of Morality. His most recent book, The Virtues of Vengeance, was published in April 2001. He has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion and is the author of The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (forthcoming), and Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And other Essays (1992).

Table of Contents

Learning Is the Handmaid of the Lord: Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758), Reason, and the Life of the Mind
1(18)
Allen C. Guelzo
George Ripley (1802--1880) and Miracles: External Evidence Versus Internal Conviction
19(18)
Bruce Silver
The Radical Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826): An Essay in Retrieval
37(21)
Richard K. Matthews
James Madison (1751--1836)
58(11)
George W. Carey
Emerson (1803--1882) on the Realization of Freedom
69(16)
Gustaaf Van Cromphout
Thoreau's (1817--1862) Lakes of Light: Modes of Representation and the Enactment of Philosophy in Walden
85(17)
H. Daniel Peck
Jane Addams (1860--1935): Patriotism in Time of War
102(17)
Scott L. Pratt
The Principle of Pragmatism: Peirce's (1839--1914) Formulations and Examples
119(18)
Christopher Hookway
James (1842--1910) on the Nonconceptual
137(12)
Russell B. Goodman
William James (1842--1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952): The Odd Couple
149(19)
Richard M. Gale
Experience as Experimental and Reconstructed Realism: An Interwoven Core of Mead's (1863-1931) Philosophy
168(15)
Sandra Rosenthal
The Difference God Makes (Josiah Royce, 1855--1916)
183(12)
John Lachs
C. L. Lewis (1883--1964) on the Given and Its Interpretation
195(14)
Laurence BonJour
On Quine's (1908-2000) Rejection of Intensional Entities
209(17)
Michael Jubien
Denying a Dualism: Goodman's (1906--1998) Repudiation of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
226(13)
Catherine Z. Elgin
Ryleans and Outlookers: Wilfrid Sellars (1912--1989) on ``Mental States''
239(27)
Jay F. Rosenberg
Equal Liberty for All? (John Rawls, (1921--2002)
266(16)
Thomas Pogge
What Nozick (1938--2002) Did for Decision Theory
282(13)
David Schmidtz
Sarah Wright
On Kripke (1940-- ) and Statements
295(14)
G. W. Fitch
Donald Davidson (1917--2003)
309(25)
Ernest LePore
Kirk Ludwig
Freedom to Break the Laws (David Lewis, 1941--2001)
334(17)
Peter van Inwagen
Putnam's (1926-- ) Retreat: Some Reflections on Hilary Putnam's Changing Views about Metaphysical Necessity
351(28)
Bob Hale
David Kaplan (1933-- ) on De Re Belief
379
Erin L. Eaker

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