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John Lachs, one of American philosophy's most distinguished interpreters, turns to William James, Josiah Royce, Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, and George Santayana to elaborate stoic pragmatism, or a way to live life within reasonable limits. Stoic pragmatism makes sense of our moral obligations in a world driven by perfectionist human ambition and unreachable standards of achievement. Lachs proposes a corrective to pragmatist amelioration and stoic acquiescence by being satisfied with what is good enough. This personal, yet modest, philosophy offers penetrating insights into the American w

"This book uses literary examples makes the case for understanding law and the legal system through the lens of philosophical pragmatism. For pragmatists, experience is everything; and they argue against understanding the world through any abstraction, maintaining that it is simply too complicated to fit into categories or theories. Legal pragmatism is the application of this philosophy to the making of law, the practice of law, and the practice of judging. This book maintains that the best way to understand legal pragmatism is not through bare theoretical exegesis but through literature; that is, through stories that cast light on various pragmatic aspects of law. Engaging a range of literary sources, including works by Seamus Heaney, Hilary Mantel, Harper Lee and Ian McEwan, the book makes a compelling case for the contemporary relevance of pragmatism. This book will appeal to legal theorists, law and literature/humanities scholars; readers of literary criticism; and those with interests in pragmatist philosophy"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Classical Pragmatism -- 2 Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Global Citizenship -- 3 Classical Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Neopragmatism -- 4 Classical Pragmatism and Communicative Action -- 5 From Critical Theory to Pragmatism -- 6 A Neo-Heideggerian Critique of Technology -- 7 Doing and Making in a Democracy -- 8 Nature as Culture: John Dewey and Aldo Leopold -- 9 Green Pragmatism -- 10 What Was Dewey's Magic Number? -- 11 Cultivating a Common Faith -- 12 Beyond the Epistemology Industry -- 13 The Homo Faber Debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- 14 Productive Pragmatism: Habits as Artifacts in Peirce and Dewey -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Problems of Art and Life -- 2 The Value of Aesthetic Experience -- 3 Dewey on Experience, Value, and Ends -- 4 Aesthetic Experience and the Experience of Moral Cultivation -- 5 Reflection and Moral Value in Aesthetic Experience -- 6 Orientational Meliorism and the Quest for the Artful Life -- 7 Practicing the Art of Living: The Case of Artful Communication -- 7 Practicing the Art of Living: The Case of Artful Communication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and Mead, rights exist only if they are embedded in the operative practices of a community. People have a right in a community if their claim is acknowledged, and if they would acknowledge similar claims by others. Singer's account contrasts with theories of natural rights, which state that humans have rights by virtue of being human. Singer's account also differs from Kantian attempts to derive rights from the necessary conditions of rationality. While denying that rights exist independently of a community's practices, Singer maintains that rights to personal autonomy and authority ought to exist in all communities. Group rights, an anathema among individualistic theories, are from Singer's pragmatist perspective a valuable institution. Singer's discussion of rights appropriate for minority communities (e.g., the Bosnian Muslims and the Canadian Quebecois) is particularly illuminating. Her book is a model of careful reasoning. General libraries, and certainly academic libraries, should have Singer's Operative Rights. The volume under review is a good addition for research libraries and recommended for graduate students and above."[Singer] examines the views of Rousseau, Mill, and T. H. Green on human rights and those of Dewey and G. H. Mead on the relationship between rights and the democratic process...Recommended."--Choice

1. German idealism, classical pragmatism, and Kant's third Critique / Sebastian Gardner -- 2. The Fallibilism of Kant's architectonic / Gabriele Gava -- 3. A Kant-inspired vision of pragmatism as democratic experimentalism / David Macarthur -- 4. Peirce, Kant, and what we must assume / Cheryl Misak -- 5. Peirce and the final opinion : against Apel's transcendental interpretation of the categories / Daniel Herbert -- 6. Forms of reasoning as conditions of possibility : Peirce's transcendental inquiry concerning inductive knowledge / Jean-Marie Chevalier -- 7. Kant and Peirce on belief / Marcus Willaschek -- 8. Round Kant or through him? : on James's arguments for freedom, and their relation to Kant's / Robert Stern -- 9. Consciousness in Kant and William James / Graham Bird -- 10. Concepts of objects as prescribing laws : a Kantian and pragmatist line of thought / James R. O'Shea -- 11. Subjectivity as negativity and as a limit : on the metaphysics and ethics of the transcendental self, pragmatically naturalized / Sami Pihlstrom -- 12. A plea for transcendental philosophy / Wolfgang Kuhlmann -- 13. Transcendental arguments, epistemically constrained truth, and moral discourse / Boris Rahme.

From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life"-and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology-and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous-can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the "sick-souled," those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of "healthy-mindedness"-an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- TO THE READER -- 1. Charles Sanders Peirce: An Overview -- 2. Peirce's British Connection -- 3. Peirce on Normative Science -- 4. Action Through Thought: The Ethics of Inquiry -- 5. Normative Science and the Pragmatic Maxim -- 6. Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim: Realist or Nominalist? -- 7. Peirce on "Substance" and "Foundations" -- 8. Peirce on Continuity -- 9. Objective Chance: Lonergan and Peirce on Scientific Generalization -- 10. C. S. Peirce and Religious Experience -- 11. "Vaguely Like a Man": The Theism of Charles S. Peirce -- 12. C. S. Peirce's Argument for God's Reality: A Pragmatist's View -- Appendix: Response to Hartshorne's "Peirce and Religion" -- Bibliography -- About the Author