Pragmatism with Purpose: Selected Writings

by Peter Hare, Joseph Palencik (Editor), Douglas R. Anderson, Steven A. Miller

Overview

Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on "holistic pragmatism" that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823264322
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2015
Series:	American Philosophy
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Peter Hare was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buffalo, SUNY.

Joseph Palencik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indian River State College.

Douglas R. Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Steven A. Miller is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Table of Contents

Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction: Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown?
Vincent Colapietro

Autobiographical Occasions
A Brief Autobiography, — Editing American Philosophy, — Reflections on the Career of John J. McDermot,

Part I: Ethics of Belief
1. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe (with Peter Kauber)
2. William James, Dickinson Miller and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief (with Edward H. Madden)
3. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief

Part II: Reflections on Classical Pragmatism
4. A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality (with Edward H. Madden)
5. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society
6. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism

Part III: Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism
7. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics
8. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism

Part IV: Religion
9. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil (with Edward H. Madden)
10. Religion and Analytic Naturalism
11. Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology (with John Ryder)

Part V: Philosophy, Past, Present, and Future
12. Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Interactionism (with John Lincourt)
13. The Future of American Philosophy

Part VI: Poetry
14. What Are Poets for? Contextualism and Pragmatism
15. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss
16. Deep Conceptual Play in William James

Part VII: Social Critique
17. Reflections on Civil Disobedience (with Edward H. Madden)
18. The American Mind
19. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems
20.Values of the American Intellectual Class

Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

Peter Hare is a significant figure in contemporary Anglo-American thought, not least of all because his writings no less than his character are a concrete embodiment of intellectual pluralism. -Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University

For forty years, Peter Hare was an acknowledged leader of a loose assembly of driven scholars marginalized by dominant philosophical cliques that cared little for philosophy originating in America. . . . This volume represents an essential narrative to a broader account of late twentieth-century philosophy in America. -John R. Shook, University at Buffalo, SUNY

"I can think of no more fitting epitaph for Hare's life and no better celebration of what he was able to accomplish in his too few years than what is included in this volume."-Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

From the Publisher

I can think of no more fitting epitaph for Hare's life and no better celebration of what he was able to accomplish in his too few years than what is included in this volume.

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Peter Hare is a significant figure in contemporary Anglo-American thought, not least of all because his writings no less than his character are a concrete embodiment of intellectual pluralism.

Pennsylvania State University - Vincent Colapietro

For forty years, Peter Hare was an acknowledged leader of a loose assembly of driven scholars marginalized by dominant philosophical cliques that cared little for philosophy originating in America. . . . This volume represents an essential narrative to a broader account of late twentieth-century philosophy in America.

University at Buffalo - John R. Shook