{"product_id":"pragmatism-isbn-9780262544610","title":"Pragmatism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA concise, reader-friendly overview of pragmatism, the most influential school of American philosophical thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePragmatism, America’s homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism’s origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal. With attention to the movement’s original thinkers—Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead—as well as its contemporary proponents, he explains how pragmatism thinks about what is real, what can be known, and what minds are doing. And because of pragmatism’s far-reaching impact, Shook shows how its views on reality, truth, knowledge, and cognition coordinate with its approaches to agency, sociality, human nature, and personhood.Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Pragmatism: An Old Name for Newly Confirmed Ideas 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Principles of Pragmatism 21\u003cbr\u003e3 Permanence and Impermanence 39\u003cbr\u003e4 Context and Reality 65\u003cbr\u003e5 Truth in Consequences 89\u003cbr\u003e6 Being and Thinking 115\u003cbr\u003e7 Pragmatism versus Epistemology 139\u003cbr\u003e8 Transactional Knowledge 159\u003cbr\u003e9 Ecological Mentality 181\u003cbr\u003e10 Society, Self, and Mind 205\u003cbr\u003e11 Culture and Person 227\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 243\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 245\u003cbr\u003eNotes 251\u003cbr\u003eFurther Reading 267\u003cbr\u003eIndex 273\"[An] accessible intellectual history. . . . The book’s solid structure, helpful glossary, and discerning list of further readings make it a worthwhile resource for newcomers. Philosophy students will want to check this out.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJohn R. Shook teaches philosophy at Bowie State University in Maryland. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNeuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303622430949,"sku":"NP9780262544610","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544610.jpg?v=1767735040","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pragmatism-isbn-9780262544610","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}