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- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth‐Century Religious Philosophy
- Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism
- Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections
- William James
- John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics, and Democracy
- Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism
- George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized
- A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Double‐Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Critical Turn
- The Pragmatist Family Romance
- The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
- Whitehead's Metaphysical System
- Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism
- Pragmatism and the Cold War
- Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce
- W. V. Quine
- Philosophy of Science in America
- The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy
- Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo‐Sellarsian Philosophy in the Twenty‐first Century
- Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics in America
- Analytic Philosophy in America
- Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
- Liberal Equality: What, Where, and Why
- Legal Philosophy in America
- American Moral Philosophy
- Essences, Intersections, and American Feminism
- Name Index
- Subjects Index
Abstract and Keywords
In understanding the transition to the analytic period in America, it is important to remember that analytic philosophy is neither a fixed body of substantive doctrine, a precise methodology, nor a radical break with most traditional philosophy of the past—save for varieties of romanticism, theism, and absolute idealism. Instead, it is a discrete historical tradition stemming from Frege, Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein, and the logical positivists, characterized by respect for science and common sense, belief in the relevance of logic and language for philosophy, emphasis on precision and clarity of argumentation, suspicion of a priori metaphysics, and elevation of the goals of truth and knowledge over inspiration, moral uplift, and spiritual comfort—plus a dose of professional specialization.
Keywords: American philosophy, analytic philosophy, romanticism, theism, absolute idealism, logical positivists
Scott Soames is Director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, and author of Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2003).
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- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth‐Century Religious Philosophy
- Emerson, Romanticism, and Classical American Pragmatism
- Peirce and Pragmatism: American Connections
- William James
- John Dewey: Inquiry, Ethics, and Democracy
- Josiah Royce: Idealism, Transcendentalism, Pragmatism
- George Santayana: Ordinary Reflection Systematized
- A Pragmatist World View: George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Double‐Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Critical Turn
- The Pragmatist Family Romance
- The Reception of Early American Pragmatism
- Whitehead's Metaphysical System
- Thorstein Veblen and American Social Criticism
- Pragmatism and the Cold War
- Pragmatism and the Given: C. I. Lewis, Quine, and Peirce
- W. V. Quine
- Philosophy of Science in America
- The Influence of Wittgenstein on American Philosophy
- Placing in a Space of Norms: Neo‐Sellarsian Philosophy in the Twenty‐first Century
- Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics in America
- Analytic Philosophy in America
- Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics
- Liberal Equality: What, Where, and Why
- Legal Philosophy in America
- American Moral Philosophy
- Essences, Intersections, and American Feminism
- Name Index
- Subjects Index
