Free Download Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce
2020 | ISBN: 022671991X, 022671988X | English | 384 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution. Many are familiar with John Dewey's 1909 assertion that evolutionary ideas overturned two thousand years of philosophy-but what exactly happened in the fifty years prior to Dewey's claim? What form did evolutionary ideas take? When and how were they received by American philosophers?