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Author Cohen, Morris

Title American Thought : a Critical Sketch
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (449 pages)
Contents Cover; Half title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; The Background of the American Tradition; Conquest of the Wilderness; The Evaluation of the Intellect; Intellectual Leadership; Standardizing Education; Cross . Currents of American Thought; Standardization and Intolerance; American Ideas on History; The Religious Interpretation; The Racial Interpretation; The Geographic Interpretation; The Economic Interpretation; Scientific History; Technical Philosophy and History; The Evolutionary Philosophy of History; Determinism and Tychism; History versus Value
Scientific ThoughtPopular Interest in Science; Science, Religion and Philosophy; Scientific Method; Economic Thought; General Background; The Development of Classical Economic Theory; Henry Carey; Daniel Raymond; Willard Phillips; J.B. Clark; The Historical School; Veblen and More Recent Economists; General Reflections; Applied Economics; Scientific Management; Social Planning; Political Thought; The Religious Heritage; The Influence of the Lawyers; The Role of the Professors; Legal Thought; The Classic Tradition; The Beginnings of Systematic Jurisprudence; Marshall; Kent; Story; Cooley
Historical JurisprudencePomeroy; Carter; Langdell and his School; Williston; Beale; Thayer and Wigmore; Gray and Judicial Legislation; The Sociologic Jurisprudence of Roscoe Pound; The Influence of Justices Brandeis and Cardozo; The Legal Philosophy of Justice Holmes; The Realistic School; Bigelow and Brooks Adams; Bentley; Oliphant; Underhill Moore; Frank; Arnold; Robinson; Functionalism; Cook; Corbin and Clark; Llewellyn; F.S. Cohen; The Outlook; Religious Thought; Popular Attitudes Towards Religion; The Diversities of Religious Attitudes; Modernism and Fundamentalism
The Scientist-TheologiansPhilosophies of Religion; Functionalists or Behaviorists; Apologetics; Experimentalism; Individual Philosophers; Royce; Santayana; Adler; Whitehead; Aesthetics; General Theory; Thinking about Architecture; Musical Thought; Literary Criticism; General Philosophy; The Beginnings of Philosophy in America; John Fiske: The Philosophy of Evolution; Chauncey Wright: The Start of Scientific Empiricism; William T. Harris and the Varieties of Idealism; Charles S. Peirce: The Logic of Science; Josiah Royce and the Idealist Tradition; The Pragmatism of William James
John Dewey and His SchoolThe New Realism; Critical Realism; George Santayana and the Life of Reason; Frederick J.E. Woodbridge: Scientific Metaphysics; Wilmon H. Sheldon: The Strife of Systems; Arthur 0. Lovejoy: Objective Temporalism; H.T. Costello: The Logic of Relations; J.E. Boodin: The Metaphysic of Pragmatism; David F. Swenson: The Problem of the Existential; C.J. Ducasse: The Ontological Liberal; Edgar A. Singer and the Philosophy of Science; Clarence I. Lewis: The Logic of Pragmatism; Alfred N. Whitehead: Time and the Eternal; Contemporary Value Theory; Retrospect
Notes Index of Proper Names
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Subject Intellectual life
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140363
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Felix S
ISBN 9781351532303
1351532308