American philosophy: the basics

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"What is it that makes American philosophy unique? {this book] answers this question by tracing the history of American thought from early Calvinists to the New England Transcendentalists and from contract theory to contemporary African American philosophy. ..."--Back cover.

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Full title :American philosophy : the basics / Nancy Stanlick.

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Publication Date:2012.

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:pages cm.

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ISBN:9780415689724, 0415689724, 0415689708, 9780415689700
oclc:ocn801596284
LC Classification:B851
Dewey Decimal:191

1. Ontroduction (Branches of philosophy ; American philosophy) -- 2. The genesis of Euro-American philosophy (Epistemology, scientific knowledge, and religious truth ; Metaphysics: reality, the will, and religion ; Criticisms) -- 3. The Enlightenment revolutionaries (Revolutionary thinking ; What is Enlightenment ; Revolutuionary epistemology, metaphysics, and method ; Revolutionary philosphy of religion ; Revolutionary ethics, social and political philosophy ; Criticisms of Revolutionary thought) -- 4. Beyond the Enlightenment revolutionaries (Religion, ethics, and social and political philosophy ; The problem of slavery ; American women's rights ; Criticisms) -- 5. New England Transcendentalism and the continuing spirit of reform (Transcendentalist metaphysics and epistemology ; The continuing spirit of reform ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; Emma Goldman ; Criticisms) -- 6. The pragmatists (The nature of Pragmatism ; Chauncey Wright and evolution ; Pragmatist epistemology and metaphysics ; Pragmatists on religion, ethics and the social world ; Richard Rorty and twentieth-century American Pragmatism ; Criticisms of Pragmatism) -- 7. Recent developments in American philosophy: Part I (Metaphys…