Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder 
The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy 

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the most
ambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought.

* * Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought in
America.

* Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leading
scholars in American philosophy.

* Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- and
twentieth-century philosophical movements in America including
idealism, pragmatism and naturalism.

* Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophical
thought.

* Includes useful bibliographies.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors.

Preface.

Editors’ Introduction.

PART I: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS.

1. Early American Philosophy (John Ryder).

2. Idealism in American Thought (Douglas Anderson).

3. The First Pragmatists (Joseph Margolis).

4. Naturalism (Michael Eldridge).

PART II. MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.

5. C.S. Peirce, 1839-1914 (Vincent Colapietro).

6. William James, 1842-1910 (William J. Gavin).

7. Josiah Royce, 1855-1916 (Frank M. Oppenheim, SJ).

8. George Santayana, 1863-1952 (Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.).

9. John Dewey, 1859-1952 (Larry A. Hickman).

10. George Herbert Mead, 1863-1931 (Mitchell Aboulafia).

11. Jane Addams, 1860-1935 (Charlene Haddock Seigfried).

12. W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963 (Shannon Sullivan).

13. Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947 (John W. Lango).

14. C.I. Lewis, 1883-1964 (Sandra B. Rosenthal).

15. Suzanne K. Langer, 1895-1985 (Richard E. Hart).

16. Willard Van Orman Quine, 1908-2000 (Peter T. Manicas).

17. Alain L. Locke, 1885-1954 (Leonard Harris).

18. Justus Buchler, 1914-1991 (Kathleen Wallace).

PART III. MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY.

19. Community and Democracy (James Campbell).

20. Knowledge and Action: American Epistemology (Scott L.
Pratt(.

21. Religion (William D. Dean).

22. Education (Nicholas C. Burbules, Bryan Warnick, Timothy
Mc Donough, and Scott Johnston).

23. Art and the Aesthetic (Armen T. Marsoobian).

Epilogue: Editor’s Note.

Epilogue: The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy (John
J. Mc Dermott).

Index.

O autorze

Armen T. Marsoobian is Professor of Philosophy at Southern
Connecticut State University. He is co-editor of Justus
Buchler’s Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (with
Kathleen Wallace, 1990) and of Nature’s Perspectives:
Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics (with Kathleen Wallace and
Robert S. Carrington, 1991). He is editor-in-chief of the Blackwell
journal Metaphilosophy.

John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the
Office of International Programs, and Director of the Center on
Russia and the United States at The State University of New York.
He is author of Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies
of the History of American Thought (1999), editor of
American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century
(1994), and co-editor of The Philosophical Writings of
Cadwallader Colden (with Scott L. Pratt, 2002).