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On Knowing-the Social Sciences
Richard P. McKeon
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Description for On Knowing-the Social Sciences
Paperback. Editor(s): Owen, David B.; Olson, Joanne K. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy—across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics—and showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem. The roots of this book, On Knowing—The Social Sciences, are traced to McKeon’s classes where he blended philosophy with physics, ethics, politics, history, and aesthetics.
This volume—the second in a series—leaves behind natural science themes to embrace freedom, power, and history, ... Read more
As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy—across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics—and showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem. The roots of this book, On Knowing—The Social Sciences, are traced to McKeon’s classes where he blended philosophy with physics, ethics, politics, history, and aesthetics.
This volume—the second in a series—leaves behind natural science themes to embrace freedom, power, and history, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226340210
SKU
V9780226340210
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