The Things in Heaven and Earth: An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism

John Ryder

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

The Things in Heaven and Earth

An Essay in Pragmatic Naturalism

John Ryder

In the series American Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293254

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The Things in Heaven and Earth develops and applies the American philosophical naturalist tradition of the mid–20th century, specifically the work of three of the most prominent figures of what is called Columbia Naturalism: John Dewey, John Herman Randall Jr., and Justus Buchler. The book argues for the philosophical value and usefulness of this underappreciated tradition for a number of contemporary theoretical and practical issues, such as the modernist/postmodernist divide and debates over philosophical constructivism. Pragmatic naturalism offers a distinctive ontology of constitutive relations. Relying on Buchler’s ordinal ontology and on the relationality implicit in Dewey’s instrumentalism, the book gives a detailed account of this approach in chapters that deal with issues in systematic ontology, epistemology, constructivism and objectivity, philosophical theology, art, democratic theory, foreign policy, education, humanism, and cosmopolitanism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Contemporary Pragmatic Naturalism
1 Reconciling Pragmatism and Naturalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 The Value of Pragmatic Naturalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part II: Being and Knowing
3 An Ontology of Constitutive Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Particulars and Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5 Making Sense of World Making: Creativity and Objectivity in Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6 God and Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7 Art and Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III: Social Experience
8 The Democratic Challenge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
9 Democracy and Its Problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
10 International Relations and Foreign Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
11 Cosmopolitanism and Humanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Conclusion: Pragmatic Naturalism and the Big Narrative Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823293254