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PHIL 26600 - American Philosophy

Course Credit: 1
This course offers a detailed examination of the central doctrines of two or more of the following American philosophies: transcendentalism, American idealism, pragmatism, and neo-pragmatism. Questions relating to tychism, radical empiricism, the fixation of belief, the experimental community of inquiry, individualism, democracy, meliorism, and faith will be addressed. Readings will be drawn from such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, Jane Addams, John Dewey, Alain Locke, Richard Rorty, and Leonard Harris. [AH]