Dictionary of Early American Philosophers

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The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860.  The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and...
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The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860.  The label of "philosopher" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the arts, history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, medicine, anthropology, religion, metaphysics, and the natural sciences.  Each entry begins with biographical and career information, and continues with a discussion of the subject's writings, teaching, and thought. A cross-referencing system refers the reader to other entries. The concluding bibliography lists significant publications by the subject, posthumous editions and collected works, and further reading about the subject.
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Shook (Pragmatic Naturalism & Realism) and 150 scholars provide 454 profiles of early American philosophers active between 1600 and 1860. Despite the title, entries include Canadian philosophers such as Jacques Odelin. The signed entries, which run to two or more pages each, often open with biographical details, discuss historical significance and reception, and close with detailed further-reading lists that supplement the general bibliography opening each volume. VERDICT The broadest survey of early American philosophical thought to date, this is a remarkable guide to North America's early modern logicians and theorists.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781843711827
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date: 4/5/2012
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 1288
  • Product dimensions: 6.70 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 3.40 (d)

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John R. Shook, Ph.D., is Vice President for Education and Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York. He also is Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. Among his books are Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (2000) and Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit (2010). He has edited or co-edited more than a dozen books including Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism (2003), A Companion to Pragmatism (2005), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (2005), and The Future of Naturalism (2009).

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Table of Contents

Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading.

Colonial Theologians (25 new entries)
Colonial and Revolutionary Political/Legal Theorists (30 new)
Early Republic Theologians (36 new)
Early Republic Theorists Politics, Law, Economy (45 new)
Scientists, Logicians (36 new)
Physicians, "Psychologists" (24 new)
Feminists, Abolitionists, Southern Conservatives (21 new)
Idealists, Transcentalists (9 new)
Canadians (14 new)
Professors of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy (137 new)

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