History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000

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ISBN: 9780199260164

ISBN-10: 0199260168

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Edition: 2003

Authors: Bruce Kuklick

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Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social changes of the times. Kuklick sketches the genesis of these intellectual practices in New England Calvinism and the writing of Jonathan Edwards. He discusses theology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the origins of collegiate philosophy in the early part of the nineteenth century. We see the development of secular preconceptions and the emergence, after Darwin's writings of the mid-late nineteenth century, of forms of thought…

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List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Bruce Kuklick is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.



Introduction



Speculative Thought in America, 1720-1868



Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards



Philosophy and Politics



Theological Dispute


From Joseph Bellamy, True Religion Delineated (1750) to Nathaniel William Taylor, Moral Government of God (1858)



Collegiate Philosophy


From John Witherspoon, Lectures on Moral Philosophy (1800) to Noah Porter, The Human Intellect (1868)



Innovative Amateurs


From James Marsh's Edition of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection (1829) to the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1867)



The Age of Pragmatism, 1859-1934



The Shape of Revolution


The Impact in America of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859), J. S. Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865), and German higher criticism



The Consensus on Idealism, 1870-1900



Pragmatism in Cambridge


From Charles Peirce 'On a New List of Categories' (1867) to Morris Cohen (ed.), Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays by the Late Charles S. Peirce, the Founder of Pragmatism (1923)



Pragmatism at Harvard


From William James, 'Spencer's Definition of Mind' (1878) to Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity (1913)



Instrumentalism in Chicago and New York


From John Dewey (ed.), Studies in Logical Theory (1903) to John Dewey, A Common Faith (1934)



Professional Philosophy, 1912-2000



Professional Realism


From The New Realism (1912) to Wilfrid Sellars, 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' (1956)



Europe's Impact on the United States


From Rudolph Carnap, Logische Aufbau der Welt (1928) to Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964)



Harvard and Oxford


From Nelson Goodman, 'The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals' (1946) to W. V. O. Quine, 'Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World' (1975)



The Tribulations of Professional Philosophy


From Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (1999)


Conclusion


Methods, Sources, Notes


Acknowledgements


Index