E-grāmata: Pragmatism and the European Traditions: Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology before the Great Divide

"American pragmatism saw itself as the culmination of a process of naturalizing Kant and Hegel in the direction of an empiricism focused on selectional developmental processes of the sort epitomized by evolution and individual learning. This naturalizing, historicizing process was in many ways rudely interrupted by Russell and Husserl, each in his own way inventing something philosophy could be apodeictic about from its armchair. This fascinating volume provides a novel perspective on the familiar twentieth century opposition between analytic philosophy and phenomenology, by viewing those traditions through the mediating lens of their interactions with contemporaneous pragmatism."Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh, USA

"Whether through Husserls adaptations of Jamess psychology, Ramseys refinements of Peirces account of truth, Russells adaptation of Jamess radical empiricism, or the later Wittgensteins emphasis on concrete human life, two divergent traditions of twentieth century philosophyphenomenology and analytic philosophywere influenced by the pragmatists. The rich and varied essays in this collection break new ground not only in charting these and other pragmatic influences, but in helping us understand pragmatisms vitality today". Russell B. Goodman, University of New Mexico, USA

"Pragmatism and the European Tradition is an exemplary specimen of a new kind of collection of philosophical essays. It reviews, with a considerable range and expertise and fresh detail, the sources of doctrinal dissatisfaction involving intractable quarrels between analytic and continental philosophy (chiefly positivism and phenomenology) and the prospects of conceptual mediation by way of pragmatism. Quite a good idea. Thats to say, philosophical rivals must now demonstrate a measure of dialectical skill in reconciling once insurmountable doctrinal divisions. Repays a careful reading."Joseph Margolis, Temple University, USA

"This collection offers a scholarly and timely corrective to the prevailing narrative of early 20th-century philosophy. According to that narrative, analytic philosophy and phenomenology marginalized pragmatism and never engaged with pragmatism. The essays in this collection show that narrative to rely on either neglecting or misreading important figures. At a time when the very divide between analytic and Continental philosophy is being closely scrutinized from multiple perspectives, this book further complicates the story in productive ways."Carl B. Sachs, Marymount University, USA