Early Critics of Pragmatism (The Foundations of Pragmatism in American Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855069148 ISBN 13: 9781855069145

Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum, 2001

Synopsis

These volumes reprint five of the most significant critiques of pragmatism written before World War I, along with a selection of contemporary responses and replies. Each author was a formidable philosophical critic. James B. Pratt was educated at Harvard; initially attracted to James's pragmatism, he soon became a member of the Realist movement. Paul Carus, the editor of The Monist, and Albert Schinz, a scholar of language and literature, deplored pragmatism's relativism. William Caldwell was a product of the Cornell school of idealism. John T. Driscoll appealed to Thomistic scholasticism for his critique of pragmatism. They all participated in the heated controversies over pragmatism during its first decade, and drew on this experience to sum up their views in their books reprinted in these sets. These are key texts for understanding the context of pragmatism's years of greatest vitality.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark G. Spencer is associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University, ON. He teaches courses on colonial and early U.S. history and the history of ideas in the Atlantic world, including the early U.S. history survey and upper-level and graduate courses on the American Enlightenment and American Revolution. His current research projects include a SSHRC-supported volume on David Hume as historian (contracted with Penn State University Press) and work on the American Enlightenment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1855069148
• ISBN 13: 9781855069145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1680
• Editor: Shook John R.