This article reconstructs the pragmatist approach to social philosophy. It focuses on George Herbert Mead's and John Dewey's ideas in social ontology, philosophy of social science and social theory as well as on Dewey's later more... more
This article reconstructs the pragmatist approach to social philosophy. It focuses on George Herbert Mead's and John Dewey's ideas in social ontology, philosophy of social science and social theory as well as on Dewey's later more emphatic conception of social philosophy as a new "first philosophy." Three characteristics of pragmatist social philosophy are emphasized: Its processual conception of the social, its insistence on the naturalness of social phenomena and its entanglement with a naturalist metaphysics. The combination of these three aspects lead to a conception of philosophical social criticism, which aligns pragmatism with other emancipatory social philosophies such as Frankfurt school critical theory and Marxism.
In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other... more
In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other historically-minded philosophers. Piercey shows that what is distinctive about these figures is a concern with philosophical pictures - extremely general conceptions of what the world is like - rather than specific theories. He offers a comprehensive and illuminating exploration of the way in which these thinkers use narrative to evaluate and criticise these pictures. The result is a powerful and original account of how philosophers use the past.
In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other... more
In this book Robert Piercey asks how it is possible to do philosophy by studying the thinkers of the past. He develops his answer through readings of Martin Heidegger, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair MacIntyre and other historically-minded philosophers. Piercey shows that what is distinctive about these figures is a concern with philosophical pictures - extremely general conceptions of what the world is like - rather than specific theories. He offers a comprehensive and illuminating exploration of the way in which these thinkers use narrative to evaluate and criticise these pictures. The result is a powerful and original account of how philosophers use the past.
