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Title: Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by David L. Hildebrand ISBN: 0-8265-1427-8 Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a good definition of philosophy
Comment: I'm not sure what philosophers intend to create with their endless excursions into varieties of ways to navel-gaze, but this book has helped me interrupt the endless loop I've seemed to have been caught in with philosophers for several years now. It's certainly not for lack of effort on my part that I've perpetually ended-up confused. Now I learn that increasing the level of confusion has actually been part of the philosophical agenda.
David Hildebrand does me two incredibly welcome favors with this work. First, he gets me started in the right place. That is, he gets me out of theoretical epicycles and returns me to the radical world of reality. Needless to say, having a proper starting point makes a huge difference that I notice immediately.
Next, he tells me what philosophy is capable of. That is, philosophy can actually be engaged in as a MEANS to study, perchance to improve, the experience I find myself immersed in before I open my mouth to speak or poise my pen to write or or even begin to compose sentences.
I have turned an important corner here in my own personal quest to effect improvements in the world. If I never learned where to start or how to employ philosophy, then I'd remain lost in it's self-absorbed, subjective/reflective mazes until I died.
While I admit benefitting from having an erudite response constructed logically to help contextualize Putnam & Rorty, I enjoy most of all the freedom to take my own personal set of capabilities, such that they are, and investigate whether or not I am able to effect improvement in the real world.
I feel very much liberated and very much encouraged in being a practically-minded human creature.
I will add my own deeply sincere thanks to those of the other reviewers here. I look forward to what follows this volume.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Gateway to Dewey's "Tertium Quid"
Comment: Although many essays (and anthologies of essays) have appeared on the topic of classical pragmatism versus neopragmatism, this is the first book-length project I know of to tackle the controversy from a viewpoint fully conversant with and sympathetic to Dewey's signal contribution. It is quite refreshing to discover a scholar who not is not only aware of, but champions, the vital Deweyan conceptions of having versus knowing, primary experience, and the centrality of inquiry. Hildebrand's grasp of Dewey's engagement with direct and critical realism is exemplary, and his "deconstruction" of Rorty's antirealism is nothing short of amazing-"wicked" comes to mind! Although Hildebrand's alternative "practical standpoint" falls short, in my view, of Dewey's full transactional integration of experience and nature, this book opens up an area of research of vital importance. It is well written, informed, and cogent.
Rating: 5
Summary: The truth about the Neo-Pragmatists
Comment: This is the best book I have read about Pragmatism in a long time. Hildebrand confronts the differences between Neo-Pragmatism and the classical figures (especially Dewey). He argues that
although Putnam and Rorty consider themselves pragmatists they have failed to understand the more radical and significant insights of Dewey's philosophy. His criticism is not superficial. He
makes an effort to understand even the particular differences between Putnam and Rorty. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!
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Title: Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy (Routledge American Philosophy Series (RAPS)) by John J. Stuhr ISBN: 0415939682 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics by Steven Fesmire ISBN: 0253215986 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Education of John Dewey by Jay Martin ISBN: 0231116764 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy : by Richard A. Posner ISBN: 0674010817 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Rorty: And His Critics (Philosophy and Their Critics) by Robert B. Brandom ISBN: 0631209824 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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