Pragmatism Applied: William James and the Challenges of Contemporary Life

by Clifford S. Stagoll (Editor), Michael P. Levine (Editor)

Overview

Illustrates how William James's philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438473369
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/02/2020
Series:	SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Clifford S. Stagoll is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Michael P. Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. His books include Thinking through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (coauthored with Damian Cox).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making Pragmatism Pragmatic
Clifford S. Stagoll and Michael P. Levine

Part I. Issues: Putting James to Work

1. Listening to “the Cries of the Wounded”: Jamesian Reflections on the Impasse over Gun Control
James M. Albrecht

2. Revisiting the Social Value of College Breeding
Loren Goldman

3. What Makes the Lives of Livestock Significant?
Erin McKenna

4. Significant Lives and Certain Blindness: William James and the Disability Paradox
Nate Jackson

5. Pragmatism and Progress: Has There Been Progress in Race Relations in the United States?
Damian Cox and Michael P. Levine

Part II. Theory: Clearing The Way

6. Applying Jamesian Pragmatism to Moral Life: Against “Applied Ethics”
Sami Pihlström

7. Understanding Experience with William James
John Ryder

8. James and the Minimal Self
Yumiko Inukai

Part III. Practice: Living with James

9. William James and the Woods
Douglas R. Anderson

10. Taking James to Work: Pragmatism for Managers
Clifford S. Stagoll

11. Habits in a World of Change
James Campbell

List of Contributors
Index
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is the first sustained attempt to take James’s call for a lived philosophy at face value, both exploring the extent of James’s own philosophical project and furthering it in ever new directions. As is clear from the reading of the various contributions, we are given a taste of what Jamesian philosophy might or should achieve rather than merely presenting what it promises to deliver. And this is clearly novel and extremely intriguing.” — Sarin Marchetti, author of Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James

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