Frontiers in American Philosophy Volume II

To push the edges of the known to look at the accepted in novel ways is indeed to stand at the frontiers of a field. In Frontiers in American Philosophy thirty-five contemporary scholars explore classical American thought in bold new ways. An extraordinary range of issues and thinkers is represented in these pages--from such core themes as metaphysics and social philosophy which receive primary attention to some consideration of American philosophers'' technical accomplishments in mathematical logic and philosophical analysis. The authors also offer new perspectives on the work of the leading American philosophers including George Herbert Mead William James John Dewey Charles Sanders Peirce and Emma Goldman. Not surprisingly perhaps a great deal of the discussion revolves either directly or indirectly around that great axis of intellectual issues commonly known as the realism/idealism controversy. It seems fitting that so much attention is devoted to the possibility of some sort of middle position between external realism and its antipode in some form of relativistic subjectivism. For in the last analysis such a middle position is for the American philosophers the core meaning of pragmatism.