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- The Things in Heaven and Earth:An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: American Philosophy
summary
The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-20th century, specifically the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is called Columbia Naturalism: John Dewey, John Herman Randall Jr., and Justus Buchler. The book argues for the philosophical value and usefulness of this underappreciated tradition for a number of contemporary theoretical and practical issues, such as the modernist/postmodernist divide and debates over philosophical constructivism.Pragmatic naturalism offers a distinctive ontology of constitutive relations. Relying on Buchler's ordinal ontology and on the relationality implicit in Dewey's instrumentalism, the book gives a detailed account of this approach in chapters that deal with issues in systematic ontology, epistemology, constructivism and objectivity, philosophical theology, art, democratic theory, foreign policy, education, humanism, and cosmopolitanism.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-8
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- Part Two. Being and Knowing
- pp. 55-70
- Four. Particulars and Relations
- pp. 77-93
- Five. Making Sense of World Making
- pp. 95-118
- Six. God and Faith
- pp. 119-140
- Seven. Art and Knowledge
- pp. 141-176
- Part Three. Social Experience
- pp. 177-192
- Eight. The Democratic Challenge
- pp. 179-209
- Nine. Democracy and Its Problems
- pp. 211-239
- Eleven. Cosmopolitanism and Humanism
- pp. 273-295
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823250592
Related ISBN(s)
9780823244683
MARC Record
OCLC
859687495
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No