Being in America
Subtitle: sixty years of the Metaphysical Society
By: edited by Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs
Series: Value inquiry book series -- volume 272. -- Histories and addresses of philosophical societies; Value inquiry book series -- v. 272.; Histories and addresses of philosophical societies
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9789042038288; 9789401210737
Subjects: American Philosophy; History; Metaphysik; Metaphysical Society of America; Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Being in America : on metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America  -- William Desmond; title: Introduction  -- Brian G. Henning, David Kovacs; title: Four-fold art of avoiding questions  -- Paul Weiss; title: Problem of the analogy of being  -- George Klubertanz; title: Self as source of meaning in metaphysics  -- W. Norris Clarke; title: Reality and metaphysics  -- Joseph Owens; title: Merleau-Ponty and the renewal of ontology  -- Marjorie Grene; title: Metaphysics, critique, and utopia  -- Richard J. Bernstein; title: Question of being  -- Robert Sokolowski; title: Is metaphysics possible?  -- Stanley Rosen; title: Science we are seeking  -- Ralph McInerny; title: Practicality of metaphysics  -- Frederick Ferré; title: Two faces of science  -- Ernan McMullin; title: Are categories invented or discovered? a response to Foucault  -- Jorge J.E. Gracia; title: Textuality, reality, and the limits of knowledge  -- Nicholas Rescher; title: Metaphysics and language  -- John Herman Randall, Jr.; title: Being, immediacy and articulation  -- John E. Smith; title: Striving to speak in a human voice : a peircean contribution to metaphysical discourse  -- Vincent Colapietro; title: Metaphysics of the good  -- Ivor Leclerc; title: Perishable goods  -- George Allan; title: Generosity of the good  -- Joseph Grange; title: Legacy and future  -- Robert C. Neville; title: Bibliography of presidential addresses of the Metaphysical Society of America 1952-2010.