Surrogates

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Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville Paul Weiss Surrogates introduces an important new philosophical topic: the pervasive ways that things stand for one another in nature and human experience . Going beyond semiotic theory, Paul Weiss interprets surrogacy in terms of metaphysical,epistemological,ethical, andreligiousdimensionsof life,integrating the concept into a systematic way of regardingreality.Justasphilosophybrings totheissueof surrogaterealityasystematic setof questions,Weiss’sinvestigationof the topicraisesnewquestionsforphilosophy itself, manifesting his great concern for philosophy’s freedom and creativity. The author concludes each chapter with an imaginative set of questions and answers that engage imagined critics in a dialogue . Together with his previous book Emphatics, Surrogates constitutes a richly textured phenomenology of human experience with important ramifications for contemporary pragmatism. The wit and intelligence of this volume are a delight for any reader. Paul Weiss, who died in July 2002 at age 101, was widely regarded as the most important American speculative metaphysician of his time. Throughout his long career, Weiss took philosophy’s scope to include examination of all areas of human interest and experience. His many booksincludeEmphatics;BeingandOther Realities; Creative Ventures; and influential works on the philosophy of the arts, religion, sports, logic, and politics. surrogates Weiss Front of jacket Photo courtesy of Jonathan Weiss Back of jacket Portrait of Paul Weiss by Victoria Weiss. Photograph by Botumroath Keo Lebun. http://iupress.indiana.edu 1-800-842-6796 “Weiss’s capacity for sharp insights, unexpected connections , and penetrating thoroughness wake the reader to the fact that real thinking is engaged in this book. . . . Surrogates is truly wise about how complicated and intertwined things are.” —from the Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville surrogates surrogates surrogates ...