Radical Pragmatism: An Alternative

Robert Roth, among the first few Catholics to write favorably, even if critically, about American pragmatism, presents here a creative piece of comparative philosophy in which he achieves a long-term goal of attempting a reconciliation between pragmatism and a classical spiritual and religious perspective.

The title, Radical Pragmatism, is an adaptation of William James's "radical empiricism." James argues that the classical empiricists, Locke and Hume, did not go far enough in their account of experience.

They missed some of its most important aspects, namely connections and relations, and as a result, they were left with discrete sense data and sense objects.

Author: Robert J. Roth
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/01/1999
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780823218516

About the Author
Robert J. Roth is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fordham University. His publications include John Dewey and Self-Realization, American Religious Philosophy, and British Empiricism and American Pragmaticism.