Charles Hartshorne - Creativity in American philosophy
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1984 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hartshorne, Charles, 1897 Creativity in American Philosophy. 1. Philosophy, AmericanHistory. I. Title. B851.H37 1984 191 83-15562 ISBN 0-87395-816-0 ISBN 0-87395-817-9 (pbk.)
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Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
1. From Colonial Beginnings to Philosophical Greatness
1
2. Jonathan Edwards on God and Causality
14
3. Some Early American Critics of Determinism
27
Samuel Johnson
27
Ethan Allen
28
A Noble Unitarian
31
4. Emerson's Secularized Calvinism and Thoreau's Approach to Anarchism
34
5. James's Empirical Pragmatism
50
6. Royce's Mistakes and Achievements
63
7. A Revision of Peirce's Categories
74
8. The Down-to-Earth Activism of John Dewey
92
9. Whitehead's Revolutionary Concept of Prehension
103
10. Santayana's Skeptical Eclecticism
114
11. Mead's Social Psychology and Philosophy of the Present
126
12. Hocking and Perry on Idealism
146
13. Lewis on Memory, Modality, and the Given
159
14. Cohen and Sheldon on Polarity
182
Morris R. Cohen's Agnostic Rationalism
182
Wilmon H. Sheldon's Classical Theism
184
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15. Blanshard's Necessitarianism
192
16. Brightman's Theory of the Given and Idea of God
196
17. Pepper and McKeon on Philosophical Systems
205
18. Montague's Animistic Materialism and Promethean Religion
211
19. Weiss's Phenomenology of Religion
220
20. Adler's Neo-Aristotelianism
229
21. Roy and Wilfrid Sellars on Quality and Structure
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