Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30198-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 287, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies

Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism is a collection of texts written by top international experts on American philosophy. They consider various strands of American pragmatism from the viewpoint of practical philosophy, and provide the historical background and an outline of the international encounter with other philosophical traditions. Many key figures of American thought and pragmatist philosophy are discussed. The volume combines a panorama of approaches and gives a wide scope of problems: ethical, religious, social, political, cultural, ontological, cognitive, anthropological, and others, so as to show that pragmatism can be seen as a philosophy of life and as such it focuses on the life problems of contemporary humans in particular and of humanity in general.

Contributors are: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, John Lachs, Sami Pihlström , Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Kenneth W. Stikkers, and Emil Višnovský

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE by Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski

John Lachs: The Obligations of Philosophers

Emil Višnovský: Prolegomena to Pragmatist Conception of the Good Life

Kenneth W. Stikkers: Practicing Philosophy in the Experience of Living: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the American Philosophical Tradition

Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley: Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing and Improving Life

Sami Pihlström: Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition

Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski: Richard Rorty's Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of Humanism

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ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS

Über Autor(innen)

Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowronski, PhD (1998), habilitation (2014) at University of Wroclaw, is an Associate Professor at Opole University, Poland. He has published several books on American philosophy. He co-organizes the American and European Values annual international conference series.