McGranahan, Lucas Robert (Author)
Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism construes species as mutable historical products of a blind process that serves no inherent purpose. It also represents a distinctly modern kind of fallible science that relies on statistical evidence and is not verifiable by simple laboratory experiments. What are human purpose and knowledge if humanity has no pre-given essence and science itself is our finite and fallible product? According to the Received Image of Darwinism, Darwin’s theory signals the triumph of mechanism and reductionism in all science. On this view, the individual virtually disappears at the intersection of (internal) genes and (external) environment. In contrast, William James creatively employs Darwinian concepts to support his core conviction that both knowledge and reality are in the making, with individuals as active participants. In promoting this Pragmatic Image of Darwinism, McGranahan provides a novel reading of James as a philosopher of self-transformation. Like his contemporary Nietzsche, James is concerned first and foremost with the structure and dynamics of the finite purposive individual. This timely volume is suitable for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of history of philosophy, history and philosophy of science, history of psychology, American pragmatism and Darwinism.
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Essay Review
Matthew Crippen;
(2018)
William James, Darwinian Theory and Personal Evolution
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Article
Jeremy Dunham;
(2015)
Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Will to Believe: Charles Renouvier and William James
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Article
Leary, David E.;
(2009)
Between Peirce (1878) and James (1898): G. Stanley Hall, the Origins of Pragmatism, and the History of Psychology
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Book
Sarin Marchetti;
(2021)
The Jamesian Mind
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Book
John J. Stuhr;
(2022)
No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism
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Book
David E. Leary;
(2018)
The Routledge Guidebook to James’s Principles of Psychology
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Thesis
McGranahan, Lucas Robert;
(2012)
William James's Evolutionary Pragmatism: A Study in Physiology, Psychology, and Philosophy at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
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Book
Cooper, Wesley;
(2002)
The Unity of William James's Thought
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Article
Croce, Paul;
(2007)
Nature's Providence: From Swedenborgian Philosophy of Use to William James's Pragmatism
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Book
Canadelli, Elena;
(2013)
Più positivo dei positivisti: Antropologia, psicologia, evoluzionismo in Tito Vignoli
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Article
Schmaus, Warren;
(2010)
Durkheim, Jamesian Pragmatism and the Normativity of Truth
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Book
Vogler, Candace A.;
(2001)
John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology
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Hawkins, Stephanie L.;
(2014)
William James and the “Theatre” of Consciousness
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Book
Trevor Pearce;
(2020)
Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
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Thesis
Brady, Michael;
(2013)
Evolution and the Transformation of American Philosophy
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James, William;
Skrupskelis, Ignas K.;
Berkeley, Elizabeth M.;
James, Henry;
(1992-2004)
The Correspondence of William James, Volumes 1--12
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James, William;
Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Elizabeth M. Berkeley;
(2001)
The Correspondence of William James; Vol. 9: July 1899-1901
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Article
Coon, Deborah J.;
(2000)
Salvaging the Self in a World Without Soul: William James's “The Principles of Psychology”
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Article
Croce, Paul J.;
(2010)
Reaching beyond Uncle William: A Century of William James in Theory and in Life
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Chapter
Horowitz, Brian;
(2003)
Lev Shestov's James: A Knight of Free Creativity
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