LEADER 04421nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910778217803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15886-4 010 $a9786612158865 010 $a1-4008-2535-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825356 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788569 035 $a(EBL)457939 035 $a(OCoLC)437267832 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000221007 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199385 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221007 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157973 035 $a(PQKB)11529779 035 $a(OCoLC)899264553 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36214 035 $a(DE-B1597)446354 035 $a(OCoLC)979578173 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825356 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312584 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457939 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788569 100 $a20090910d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA philosophy of culture$b[electronic resource] $ethe scope of holistic pragmatism /$fMorton White 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09656-2 311 $a0-691-12398-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tI Holistic Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Culture -- $tII. William James -- $tIII. John Dewey's Philosophy of Art -- $tIV. The Dualisms of Earlier Pragmatism -- $tV. Early Epistemological Holism and the Dualisms of Logical Empiricism -- $tVI. Holistic Pragmatism and Natural Science -- $tVII. Holistic Pragmatism and the Philosophy of History -- $tVIII. Philosophy of Art as Philosophy of Language -- $tIX. Rule, Ruling, and Prediction in the Law -- $tX. Holistic Pragmatism, Ethics, and Rawls's Theory of Justice -- $tXI. Philosophy as Philosophy of Culture -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of holistic pragmatism can accommodate its breadth. Going beyond Quine's dictum that philosophy of science is philosophy enough, White suggests that it should contain the word "culture" in place of "science." He defends the holistic view that scientific belief is tested by experience but that such testing is rightly applied to systems or conjunctions of beliefs, not isolated beliefs. He adds, however, that we test ethical systems by appealing to feelings of moral obligation as well as to sensory experiences. In the course of his lucidly written analysis, White treats central issues in the philosophy of science, of religion, of art, of history, of law, of politics, and of morality. While doing so he examines the views of Quine, Tarski, Goodman, and Rawls, and shows how they are related to the approaches of Peirce, James, Duhem, Russell, Dewey, Carnap, and the later Wittgenstein. He also discusses the ideas of the legal philosophers Holmes and Hart from a holistic standpoint. White demonstrates how his version of pragmatism bridges the traditional gulf between analytic and synthetic truth as well as that between moral and scientific belief. Indeed, the high point of the book is a brilliant presentation of his view of ethics, based on the idea that our scientific theories face the tribunal of observation whereas our ethical views face the joint tribunal of observation and moral feeling. Scholars and students of the history of ideas and of philosophy will welcome A Philosophy of Culture as the highly finished product of more than sixty years of philosophical reflection by an important thinker. 606 $aPragmatism 606 $aCulture$xPhilosophy 606 $aHolism 615 0$aPragmatism. 615 0$aCulture$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHolism. 676 $a144/.3 700 $aWhite$b Morton Gabriel$f1917-$0181686 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778217803321 996 $aA philosophy of culture$93861437 997 $aUNINA