Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series is dedicated to monographs and essay collections that examine, from diverse theoretical perspectives, any aspects of America’s rich web of philosophical traditions, from the 17th Century onwards. Frequently associated with pragmatism, particularly in the United States, American philosophy also encompasses many other schools of thought, and has had a significant impact on the development of contemporary epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. By publishing outstanding treatments of its many diverse threads, this series aims to become the default resource for scholars and students interested in a full picture of American philosophy.
C.I. Lewis: The A Priori and the Given
1st Edition
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By Quentin Kammer, Jean-Philippe Narboux, Henri Wagner
September 25, 2023
This edited collection explores the philosophy of Clarence Irving Lewis through two major concepts that are integral to his conceptual pragmatism: the a priori and the given. The relation between these two elements of knowledge forms the core of Lewis’s masterpiece Mind and the World Order . While ...
Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences
1st Edition
By James Jakób Liszka
May 31, 2023
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce’s ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends. It also connects Peirce’s normative thought to contemporary debates in ethical theory. Peirce ...
Pragmatism and Social Philosophy: Exploring a Stream of Ideas from America to Europe
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By Michael G. Festl
May 31, 2023
This book explores the role that American pragmatism played in the development of social philosophy in 20th-century Europe. The essays in the first part of the book show how the ideas of Peirce, James, and Dewey influenced the traditions of European philosophy, especially existentialism and the ...
The Ethics, Epistemology, and Politics of Richard Rorty
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By Giancarlo Marchetti
May 31, 2023
This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, and politics. Inspired by James’ and Dewey’s pragmatism, Rorty urged us to rethink the role of science and truth with a liberal-democratic vision of ...
Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars’s Practical Philosophy
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By Jeremy Randel Koons, Ronald Loeffler
December 30, 2022
This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency. While most scholarship on Sellars’s ...
Challenging the New Atheism: Pragmatic Confrontations in the Philosophy of Religion
1st Edition
By Aaron Shepherd
August 01, 2022
This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religion—the mainstream approaches in contemporary philosophy of religion—are methodologically unequipped to address the “Threefold ...
The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
1st Edition
By Joseph Urbas
August 01, 2022
This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book, Emerson's Metaphysics, and like that study draws on the entire Emerson ...
John Dewey’s Ethical Theory: The 1932 Ethics
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By Roberto Frega, Steven Levine
May 06, 2022
This book provides a wide-ranging, systematic, and comprehensive approach to the moral philosophy of John Dewey, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. It does so by focusing on his greatest achievement in this field: the Ethics he jointly published with James Hayden Tufts in ...
Pragmatic Perspectives: Constructivism beyond Truth and Realism
1st Edition
By Robert Schwartz
September 30, 2021
For a good part of the 20th century, the classic Pragmatists—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey—and pragmatism in general were largely ignored by analytic philosophers. They were said to hold such untenable views as whatever best satisfies our needs is true and that the end ...
Wilfrid Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Stefan Brandt, Anke Breunig
September 30, 2021
This collection features eleven original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. Section I analyzes Sellars’s thought in light of some of his influential predecessors, specifically Ludwig Wittgenstein, ...
Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy
1st Edition
By Joshua Forstenzer
June 30, 2021
This book proposes a pragmatist methodological framework for generating practically relevant political philosophy. It draws on John Dewey’s social and political philosophy to develop an "experimentalist" method, thus charting a middle course between idealism and realism in political philosophy. ...
Richard Rorty, Liberalism and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By David E McClean
June 30, 2021
Richard Rorty was one of the most controversial and influential philosophers of the late twentieth century. McClean re-evaluates Rorty’s work in the light of his liberal cosmopolitan outlook, showing how it can be applied to a range of social and political issues....