Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists (eBook, ePUB)

Experience and Reality
Redaktion: Henning, Brian G.; John, Joseph D.; Myers, William T.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead's writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This volume questions the wisdom of that separation, exploring their connections, both historical and in application. The essays in this volume embody original and creative work by leading scholars that not only furthers the understanding of American philosophy, but seeks to advance it by working at the intersection of experience and reality to incite novel and creative thought. This exploration is long overdue. Specific questions that are addressed are: Is Whitehead a pragmatist? What contrasts and affinities exist between American pragmatism and Whitehead's thought? What new questions, strategies, and critiques emerge by juxtaposing their distinct perspectives?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739190326
• Artikelnr.: 43975566

Autorenporträt

Brian G. Henning is professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University. William T. Myers is professor of philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College. Joseph D. John is a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Is Whitehead a Pragmatist? On the Pragmatic Elements in Whitehead's Metaphysics
William T. Myers 2 Ultimate Good Sense: Whitehead's Ontological Fallibilism
George Allan 3 Whitehead's Pragmatic Epistemology
Joseph D. John 4 Prefiguring Whitehead: Reading Jamesian Pragmatism with Stengers and Latour
Steven Meyer 5 Whitehead's Speculative Contribution to Praxis: Praxis and American Philosophy
Thomas M. Jeannot 6 Contingency All the Way Down: Whitehead Among the Pragmatists
Nancy Frankenberry 7 Whitehead's "Rescue" of American Anti-Intellectualism: The Question of Pragmatism
Scott Sinclair 8 Surprise
Event
and the Problem of Novelty: A Comparison Between C. S. Peirce and A. N. Whitehead
Maria Regina Brioschi 9 Creative Love: Eros and Agape in Peirce and Whitehead
Brian G. Henning 10 DNA: A Process View
Michael Brady 11 The Habit of Art: Whitehead
Aesthetics
and Pragmatism
Nicholas Gaskill 12 A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead's Analysis of Religious Experience
Eleonora Mingarelli 13 Transition
Transmutation
and Transfiguration: Notes for a Poetics of Experience
Vincent Colapietro 14 Feeling Forming Forward: Ecstasis and Experience in Process-Pragmatic Perspective
Jude Jones