Richard Atkins

Peirce and the Conduct of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of Pierce's practical philosophy and its interactions with that of William James, for scholars of American philosophy, pragmatism and ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781316613856
• ISBN-10: 1316613852
• Artikelnr.: 54852370

Autorenporträt

Richard Atkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, Massachusetts. He is the author of Puzzled?! An Introduction to Philosophizing (2015) and numerous essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Peirce's 'paradoxical irradiations' and James's The Will to Believe
2. A defense of Peirce's sentimental conservatism
3. Heeding the call of one's savior
4. On becoming welded into the universal continuum
5. Self-control and moral responsibility
6. Peirce and practical ethics
Bibliography.