Creativity in American philosophy
By: Charles Hartshorne
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780585093000; 9781438405995
Subjects: American Philosophy; History; Philosophie américaine; Histoire; PHILOSOPHY; History & Surveys; Modern; Geschichte; Philosophie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. From colonial beginnings to philosophical greatness; title: 2. Jonathan Edwards on God and causality; title: 3. Some early American critics of determinism : Samuel Johnson, Ethan Allen, a noble unitarian; title: 4. Emerson's secularized Calvinism and Thoreau's approach to anarchism; title: 5. James's empirical pragmatism; title: 6. Royce's mistakes and achievements; title: 7. A revision of Peirce's categories; title: 8. The down-to-earth activism of John Dewey; title: 9. Whitehead's revolutionary concept of prehension; title: 10. Santayana's skeptical eclecticism; title: 11. Mead's social psychology and philosophy of the present; title: 12. Hocking and Perry on idealism; title: 13. Lewis on memory, modality, and the given; title: 14. Cohen and Sheldon on polarity; title: 15. Blanshard's necessitarianism; title: 16. Brightman's theory of the given and idea of God; title: 17. Pepper and McKeon on philosophical systems; title: 18. Montague's animistic materialism and promethean religion; title: 19. Weiss's phenomenology of religion; title: 20. Adler's neo-aristotelianism; title: 21. Roy and Wilfrid Sellars on quality and structure; title: 22. Quine, philosophical logician; title: 23. Tillich's philosophical theology; title: 24. Rorty's pragmatism and farewell to the age of faith and enlightenment; title: 25. Neville on creation and Buchler on natural complexes; title: 26. Nozick's indecisive dialectic and the meaning of life; title: 27. Conclusion.