The things in heaven and earth : an essay in pragmatic naturalism /

This volume develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid-20th century. It 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryder, John, 1951-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American philosophy.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x0233
Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary pragmatic naturalism
  • Reconciling pragmatism and naturalism
  • Value of pragmatic naturalism
  • Being and knowing
  • Ontology of constitutive relations
  • Particulars and relations
  • Making sense of world making
  • God and faith
  • Art and knowledge
  • Social experience
  • Democratic challenge
  • Democracy and its problems
  • International relations and foreign policy
  • Cosmopolitanism and humanism
  • Pragmatic, naturalism, and the big narrative.