Rorty wrote his Achieving Our Country as a philosopher, intellectual, academic and citizen, and each of these perspectives leads to a different emphasis in reading his book, and to a different story (and ‘storytelling’ is one of the themes of the book). The emergent pictures vary: the philosopher tells a story of the growing isolation and cultural sterility of analytic philosophy in the United ...

A common view of early twentieth century philosophy correctly distinguishes three movements or tendencies, phenomenology, pragmatism and the beginnings of analytic philosophy, and claims that early phenomenology and pragmatism are two radically opposed philosophical positions. Early phenomenology, it is said, is in the tradition of the logical objectivisms of Bolzano and Frege. It is only with ...

On History as an Object, Subject and Method of Inquiry Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is mostly known today the funder American pragmatism, a logician scientist. Viola’s book contributes to these existing threads in Peirce’s scholarship while at same time shaping new domain studies: historian, philologist, philosopher science. Indeed, it impossible understand philosophy science without engaging ...

These three otherwise very different books are tied together by a common commitment to resolving the problems of plurality. Alison Kadlec argues that Deweyan pragmatism can help us resist the power and domination that appear inevitable under conditions of plurality and difference. In sharp contrast, Robert Talisse argues that Deweyan pragmatism cannot succeed under the conditions of reasonable ...

We must not worry how few we are and fall from each other More than language can express Hope for the artist in America & etc —Susan Howe, " Articulation of Sound Forms in Time " Meliorism, or philosophical hopefulness, has long been acknowledged to be a genuine infl uence on pragmatist philosophy. In recent years there has been a surge of interest in this idea as an increasing number of books ...

In 1907, Charles Peirce attempted to write an article that would introduce his distinct variety of pragmatism a general audience. He intended it initially for The Nation and later Atlantic Monthly, eventually producing more than five hundred handwritten sheets, but both ultimately declined print any it. Multiple preliminary drafts comprise the manuscripts Richard Robin catalogued as R 319-322 3...