{"product_id":"the-american-philosophers-volume-xxviii-isbn-9781405119245","title":"The American Philosophers, Volume XXVIII","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e contains papers by current leading philosophers and political theorists that explore the work of the major American philosophers from the colonial period to the present, from Jonathan Edwards to David Kaplan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a philosophically and historically broad exploration of the major schools of American philosophy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines both the pragmatists and the later Twentieth Century analytic philosophers, as well as such shapers of the political and philosophical American scene as Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Emerson, and Jane Addams\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Learning Is the Handmaid of the Lord: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), Reason, and the Life of the Mind (Allen C. Guelzo). \u003cp\u003eGeorge Ripley (1802-1880) and Miracles: External Evidence Versus Internal Conviction (Bruce Silver).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): An Essay in Retrieval (Richard K. Matthews).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Madison (1751-1836) (George W. Carey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerson (1803-1882) on the Realization of Freedom (Gustaaf Van Cromphout).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThoreau’s (1817-1862) Lakes of Light: Modes of Representation and the Enactment of Philosophy in Walden (H. Daniel Peck).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane Addams (1860-1935): Patriotism in Time of War (Scott L. Pratt).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Principle of Pragmatism: Peirce’s (1839-1914) Formulations and Examples (Christopher Hookway).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames (1842-1910) on the Nonconceptual (Russell B. Goodman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam James (1842-1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952): The Odd Couple (Richard M. Gale).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperience as Experimental and Reconstructed Realism: An Interwoven Core of Mead’s (1863-1931) Philosophy (Sandra Rosenthal).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Difference God Makes (Josiah Royce, 1855-1916) (John Lachs).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. I. Lewis (1883-1964) on the Given and Its Interpretation (Laurence BonJour).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Quine’s (1908-2000) Rejection of Intensional Entities (Michael Jubien).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenying a Dualism: Goodman’s (1906-1998) Repudiation of the Analytic\/Synthetic Distinction (Catherine Z. Elgin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRyleans and Outlookers: Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) on \"Mental States’ (Jay F. Rosenberg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEqual Liberty for All? (John Rawls, 1921-2002) (Thomas Pogge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Nozick (1938-2002) Did for Decision Theory (David Schmidtz and Sarah Wright).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Kripke (1940- ) and Statements (G. W. Fitch).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDonald Davidson (1917-2003) (Ernest LePore and Kirk Ludwig).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreedom to Break the Laws (David Lewis, 1941-2001) (Peter van Inwagen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePutnam’s (1926- ) Retreat: Some Reflections on Hilary Putnam’s Changing Views about Metaphysical Necessity (Bob Hale).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Kaplan (1933- ) on De Re Belief (Erin L. Eaker)\u003c\/p\u003e  \"But in spite of this shortcoming, the editors have succeeded in putting together a very rich and stimulating collection of essays.\" (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2010)  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePeter A. French\u003c\/b\u003e is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books including \u003ci\u003eCowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorporate Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eResponsibility Matters\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorporations in the Moral Community\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Spectrum of Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCollective and Corporate Responsibility\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCorrigible Corporations and Unruly Laws\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEthics in Government\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Scope of Morality\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eThe Virtues of Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in April 2001. He has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward K. Wettstein\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming), and \u003ci\u003eHas Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e This volume features papers by outstanding scholars who are known for the work on specific figures of American Philosophy from the colonial period through the twentieth century.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990155903205,"sku":"NP9781405119245","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405119245.jpg?v=1761786716","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-american-philosophers-volume-xxviii-isbn-9781405119245","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}