American Philosophy, History of Ideas, Pragmatism, Philosophers
Research by Michael P. Garofalo, M.S.
Pragmatism in America: Bibliography, Links, Notes
Pragmatism - Key Ideas, Themes, Principles
Bibliography -
General Philosophy
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Green Way Research Subject Index
How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons
Index to An Old Philosopher's Notebooks
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Pragmatism in America
American Philosophy, History of Ideas
Bibliography, Links, Resources, Notes
Addams, Jane
(1860-1935) Social work professional, activist, peace worker, pragmatist,
and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Worked with John Dewey.
American Philosophy: A Love Story. By John Kaag. Frarrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2017, 272 pages.
American Philosophy - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
American Philosophy - Wikipedia
The
American Philosophical Society
The American Pragmatists. By Cheryl Misak. Oxford University
Press, 2013. Index, bibliography, 286 pages. VSCL.
The Annotated Emerson.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by
David Mikics. Foreword by Phillip Lopate. Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, Annotated Edition, 2012. 576 pages. ISBN:
9780674049239. My new hardbound copy is easy to read, beautiful, but a
heavy book. VSCL.
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of "On the Origin of the
Species." By Charles Darwin. Edited with extensive notes by
James T. Costa. Belknap Harvard, 2011. Index, bibliography,
biographies, 576 pages. VSCL.
Art as Experience
Cambridge Pragmatism: From Peirce and James to Ramsey and Wittgenstein.
By Cheryl Misak. Oxford University Press, 2018, 344 pages.
Chaos: Making a New Science
Complexity: A Guided Tour. 
The Concept of Mind.
By Gilbert Ryle. New York, Barnes
and Noble Books, 1949. Index, 334 pages. ISBN: None. VSCL.
The Cornel West Reader. By Cornell West. Civitas Books, 2000,
624 pages.
Critical Thinking, Logic,
Philosophy of Mind
Dewey, John
(1859-1952) Influential
pragmatist, educator, psychologist, and essayist.
Dewey, John. "John
Dewey Premium Collection – 40+ Books: Works on Psychology, Education,
Philosophy & Politics" Kindle e-book, 3,904 pages. VSCL.
Dewey, John.
The Collected Works of John Dewey: The Complete Works, Kindle e-book,
Pergamon Media, 2015, 2,753 pages. VSCL.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
(1803-1882) Essayist, poet, lecturer, popular philosopher, and
American Transcendentalist.
Emerson, Ralph.
Emerson's Compete Works, Kindle e-book, Delphi Classics, 2013, 6,414 pages.
VSCL.
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling.
Edited by David D. Karnos and Robert G. Shoemaker. Oxford University
Press, Revised Edition, 1994, 272 pages.
Fingers, Hands, Touching,
Skin, Haptics, Sensing, Feeling. Quotes, Bibliography, Notes, Links.
Compiled by Mike Garofalo.
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James. By Linda Simon.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998, 496 pages. VSCL.
Haack, Susan
(1945) Philosopher, pragmatist.
The Hand: How Its
Use Shapes the Brain, Language and Human Culture. By Frank R. Wilson,
M.D.. New York,
Vintage Books, 1998. Notes, bibliography, 397 pages. ISBN:
0679740473. VSCL. Subjects: History, Music, Hands, Anatomy, Culture,
Hand-Eye Coordination, Physiology, Tools.
Hearing and Listening.
Compiled by Mike Garofalo. Subjects: Ear, Hearing, Listening, Sound.
A
History of Philosophy, Volume VIII, Modern Philosophy: Empiricism,
Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America. By Copleston, Frederick
S. J.. New York, Doubleday,
1967, 1994. Index, bibliography, 577 pages. ISBN: 9780365470452.
VSCL.
How to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise
Persons Compiled by Mike Garofalo. Subjects: Ethics,
Virtues, Values, Psychology.
How We Think. By John Dewey. Originally published in 1910.
Independently Published, 2018, 107 pages. VSCL.
Hume, David
(1711-1776) English philosopher.
Instrumentalism is
closely related to pragmatism,
the position that practical consequences is an essential basis for determining
meaning, truth or value.
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James, William
(1842-1910)
Influential psychologist, philosopher, professor, lecturer, psychic
researcher, and pragmatist.
James, William. "The
Collected Work of William James," Kindle e-book, 2041 pages. VSCL.
Language, Truth and Logic. By Alfred J. Ayer. Dover Pub.,
Second Edition, 1936, 1952. Index, 160 pages.
Ayer was a logical positivist teaching at Cambridge. VSCL.
Lewis, Clarence Irving
(1883-1964) Logician and philosopher.
Logical Positivism. Edited by A. J. Ayer. Free Press, 1966, 464
pages. VSCL.
Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning.
By Donald Kalish and Richard Montague. New York, Harcourt, Brace and
World, 1964. Index, bibliography, answers to questions, 350 pages.
ISBN: ?. This was the textbook we used in our basic logic and advance
logic classes at CSULA in 1965. VSCL.
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. By Zena
Hitz. Princeton University Press, 2020, 240 pages. What is the value
of an intellectual life. VSCL.
Mead, George Herbert
(1863-1931) Social theorist and philosopher.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. By Louis Menand.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Index, Works Cited, Notes, 546 pages.
VSCL.
Misak, Cheryl
Provost and Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto
Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Edited by Cheryl Misak.
Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 2008, 656 pages.
Peirce, Charles Sanders
(1839-1914)
Developed theories of logic, communications, pragmaticism, and signs.
Perception, The Five
Senses Compiled by Mike Garofalo. Subjects:
Sensation, Body-Mind, Consciousness, Feeling, Perception, Physiology, Anatomy,
Body, Fitness, Experience.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. By Richard Rorty.
Princeton, 1st Edition, 1979. 401 pages. VSCL.
Philosophy
in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought.
By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Basic Books, Perseu Books, 1999.
Index,
bibliography, 624 pages.
"The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are
largely metaphorical." VSCL.
Pragmatism
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Pragmatism - Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Pragmatism - Wikipedia
Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and
Interpretive Essays. Edited by John J. Stuhr. Oxford University
Press, 2nd Edition, 1999, 705 pages. Essential original works of the main
American philosophers. User paperback, heavy, larger print and fairly easy to
read. VSCL.
Pragmatism: A Reader
Pragmatism, Old And New: Selected Writings
Native
Americans of the Pacific Northwest
Putman, Hilary
(1926-2016) Mathematician and philosopher.
Quine, Willard Van Orman
(1908–2000) Logician and theoretical philosopher.
Race Matters. By Cornel West. 25th Anniversary Edition with a
new introduction. Beacon Press, 2017, 128 pages.
Religion - Criticism
Notes, Links, Books, Quotes.
Religion: My Views Free Thought, Atheism, Agnosticism,
Non-Supernaturalism, Naturalism, Humanism, Deep Ecology. By Mike Garofalo.
Rescher, Nicholas (1928-) Books
Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburgh, 2000, 152 pages. VSCL.
Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.
Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburg, 2001, 256 pages.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume I: Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1992, Index, 335 pages. VSCL.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II: The Validity of Values. A Normative Theory of Evaluative Rationality. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1993, Index, Bibliography, 264 pages. VSCL.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III: Metaphilosophical Inquiries. By Nicholas Rescher. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1994, Index, 269 pages. VSCL.
Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency. By Nicholas Rescher. University of Pittsburg, 2009, 176 pages.
The Rorty Reader. By Richard Rorty. Edited by Richard J.
Bernstein. Introduction and notes by Christopher J. Vopani.
Wiley-Blackwell, 1st Edition, 2010, 566 pages. No Kindle version.
VSCL.
Rorty, Richard (1931-2007)
Influential contemporary philosopher and pragmatist. His "Philosophy
and the Mirror of Nature" (1979) was very influential.
A Secular Age. By Charles Taylor. Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2007. Index, notes, 874 pages. Paperback, a heavy
book. VSCL.
Soma-Aesthetics, Somatics,
Body-Mind Arts
Thinking
Critically. By John Chaffee. Boston, Wadsworth Pub., 2012. 10th Edition. Index,
glossary,
575 pages. ISBN: 9780495908814. John Chaffee, Ph.D., is a professor of
philosophy at The City University of New York, where he has developed a
Philosophy and Critical Thinking program. VSCL.
Tree of Knowledge:
The Bilological Roots of Human Understanding
Under the Microscope: A Hidden World Revealed.
By Jeremy Burgess, Michael Marten, and Rosemary Taylor. New York,
Cambridge University Press, 1987. Index, 208 pages. ISBN:
0521399408. VSCL. Subjects: Microscopes, Photography, Electron
Microscopes, Science, Seeing, Instruments.
Verificationism
- Wikipedia
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
West, Cornel
(1953-) Professor, political activist, entertainer, essayist, and author.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
Wright, Chauncy
(1830-1875)
Influenced many early Pragmatists. Strong supporter of Charles Darwin.
Key Ideas of Pragmatism: Concepts, Themes, Topics, Quotations, Links
"Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that –
very broadly – understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within
it. This general idea has attracted a remarkably rich and at times contrary
range of interpretations, including: that all philosophical concepts should be
tested via scientific experimentation, that a claim is true if and only if it is
useful (relatedly: if a philosophical theory does not contribute directly to
social progress then it is not worth much), that experience consists in
transacting with rather than representing nature, that articulate language rests
on a deep bed of shared human practices that can never be fully ‘made
explicit’."
- Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine which maintains that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cognitively meaningful, or else they are truths of logic (tautologies). Verificationism thus rejects as cognitively "meaningless" statements specific to entire fields such as metaphysics, theology, ethics and aesthetics. Such statements may be meaningful in influencing emotions or behavior, but not in terms of conveying truth value, information or factual content. Verificationism was a central thesis of logical positivism, a movement in analytic philosophy that emerged in the 1920s by the efforts of a group of philosophers who sought to unify philosophy and science under a common naturalistic theory of knowledge." - Wikipedia
Pragmatism: Quotations, Sayings
"Meanwhile, classical pragmatism’s progressive social ideals lived on in some
quarters, with notable contributions to philosophy of race made by Cornel West,
who advanced a prophetic pragmatism drawing on both Christian and Marxian
thought (e.g. West 1989). A number of other liberatory philosophical projects in
areas such as feminism (Seigfried 1996), ecology (Alexander 2013), Native
American philosophy (Pratt 2002) and Latin American philosophy (Pappas 1998)
also currently look to the pragmatist tradition as their philosophical home."
- Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy
Bibliography, Links, Resources
Philosophy, History of Philosophy, History
of Ideas
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Resources
Intellectual History
These are books I am reading, studying, using, or have read that are in my home library (VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library) in Vancouver, Washington, or borrowed from local public or university libraries.
Aristotle. The Basic Works of Aristotle. Edited with an Introduction by Richard McKeon. New York, Random House, 1941. 1487 pages. VSCL.
The Cambridge Dictionary
of Philosophy. General Editor, Robert Audi. Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 1999.
1001 pages. ISBN: 9780521637220. VSCL.
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Dictionary of Philosophy: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Edited
by Dagobert D. Runes. 15th Edition, Revised. Totowa, New Jersey,
LIttlefied, Adams and Co., 1956, 1962. 343 pages. VSCL.
Epicureans, Epicurus, Lucretius
Lacey, A.R. A Dictionary of Philosophy. New
York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 239 pages. ISBN: 068414932X.
VSCL.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Paul
Edwards, Editor in Chief. New York Macmillan Pub., 1967. Reprint of
1972. Four Volumes. Volumes 1 & 2, Abbagnano to Entropy.
Volumes 3 & 4, Epictetus to Logic. Volumes 5 & 6, Logic to Psychologism.
Volumes 7 & 8, Psychology to Zubiri.
Each volume is about 1,150 pages. VSCL.
A
History of Philosophy, Volume VII, Modern Philosophy: From the
Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. By Copleston,
Frederick S. J.. New York,
Doubleday, 1965, 1994. Index, bibliography, 496 pages. ISBN:
9780365470445. VSCL.
A History of Western Philosophy.
By Bertrand Russell. New York, Simon and Schuster, Clarion Books, 1945, 1967. Index, 895 pages.
VSCL.
A Hundred Years of Philosophy.
John Passmore. Middlesex, England, Penguin Books, 1957, 1978. Index, notes, 640 pages.
VSCL.
Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An
Evaluation of Western Philosophy. By Charles Hartshorne. Albany, New York, State University
of New York Press, 1983. Index, 393 pages. ISBN: 0873956826.
VSCL. Subjects: History, Philosophy, Process Philosophy, Pragmatism.
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century. By Peter
Watson.
New York, Harper Perennial, 2002. Index, notes, bibliography, 864 pages.
ISBN: 978-0060084387. VSCL.
A New History of Western Philosophy. By Anthony Kenny.
Oxford University Press, 2007, 2012. Index, bibliography, 1058 pages.
ISBN: 978-0199656493. VSCL.
The Oxford
Dictionary of Philosophy. Edited by Simon Blackburn. Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition
Revised,
1994, 2008. Chronology, 407 pages. ISBN: 9780199541430. VSCL.
Process and Reality. By Alfred North Whitehead. Corrected
Edition. Edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne. New
York, Free Press, Macmillan, 1978, 1929. Index, 413 pages. ISBN:
0029345707. VSCL.
Plato. The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters.
Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. With an Introduction and
Prefatory Notes. New York, Pantheon Books, 1961. Bollingen Series,
LXXI. 14 different translators are used in this collection. Detailed
index, 743 pages. LCN: 61-11758. VSCL.
Stoicism and Hellenistic Philosophy
Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne; In One Question and Twenty Attempts at
an Answer. By Sarah Bakewell. New York, Other Press, 2010.
Index, bibliography, notes, 399 pages. VSCL.
The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne. Translated by Charles
Cotton. Kindle Edition. 1981 pages. 2018. Translated
from the Latin into English in 1685. VSCL.
The Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne. Translated by Donald M.
Frame in 1957. Everyman's Library, 2003. 1392 pages. Hardbound.
VSCL.
Me, Myself, and I: What made Michel de Montaigne the first modern man?
by Jane Kramer.
Martin Heidegger. By George Steiner. University of
Chicago Press, Reissue Edition, 1978. Index, bibliography, 173 pages. ISBN:
0226772322. VSCL.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
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