New PDF release: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

By Donald Capps,John M. Capps

Donald Capps and John Capps's James and Dewey on trust and Experience juxtaposes the most important writings of 2 philosophical superstars. As fathers of Pragmatism, America's distinct contribution to global philosophy, their paintings has been greatly influential, and continues to be necessary to any realizing of yankee highbrow history.

 

In those essays, you can find William James deeply embroiled in debates among faith and technological know-how. Combining philosophical charity with logical readability, he defended the validity of non secular event opposed to crass sorts of scientism. Dewey pointed out the myriad ways that supernatural matters distract spiritual adherents from urgent social matters, and sought to reconcile the tensions inherent in science's twin embody of logic and the aesthetic.

                       

James and Dewey on trust and Experience is split into sections: the previous showcases James, the latter is dedicated to Dewey. transitional passages within which every one displays at the paintings of the opposite bridge those major segments. jointly, the sections provide a distinct viewpoint at the philosophers' complicated dating of effect and interdependence. An editors' creation offers biographical information regarding either males, an summary in their respective philosophical orientations, a dialogue of the editorial method, and a quick statement on all of the selections.

 

Comparing what those most excellent pragmatists wrote on either issues illumines their universal convictions concerning the nature of philosophical inquiry and concurrently finds what made each one a particular thinker. 

 

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