"It is rare to find academic writing that is as engaging as Siobhan Chapman's new book. This is the clearest account of Gricean and neo-Gricean implicature that I have read and has as much to say to experts in these areas as it does to beginners. This is a major contribution to …
Né en 1926 à Chicago, Hilary Putnam est l'une des grandes figures de la philosophie contemporaine, dont l'œuvre diversifiée traverse la philosophie des mathématiques, des sciences, de l'esprit et du langage, mais également l'éthique et la métaphysique. Critique de l'empirisme lo…
"This study of five American thinkers - Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau - considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important : to the deism of John Toland and Matthew Ti…
This study of five American thinkers - Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau - considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: to the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tind…
This study of five American thinkers - Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau - considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: to the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tind…
"Drawing on the work of popular American writers, American philosophers, and Continental thinkers, this book provides a new interpretation of pragmatism and American philosophy. The book critically examines the pragmatism of American philosophers such as Emerson, Peirce, James, …
4e de couv. indique : "Social enactivism is a philosophical theory which, through the analysis of discursive practice, aims at explaining how high-level cognitive conditions and processes emerge. The fundamental tenets of this theory are based on enactivist and (neo)pragmatist p…
Social enactivism is a philosophical theory which, through the analysis of discursive practice, aims at explaining how high-level cognitive conditions and processes emerge. The fundamental tenets of this theory are based on enactivist and (neo)pragmatist principles. Therefore, t…
Offering an analysis of the philosophical life as practised in this century, the author explores specific problems as treated by major 20th century pragmatists such as Dewey and Goodman, as well as theorists Haberman and Danto.
"Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life"