PHL 2050 AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

The development of Pragmatism in America, a new philosophy for a new land. Beginning with the Puritan heritage and the Transcendental movement readings from Jonathan Edwards, R. W. Emerson, C.S. Pierce, Wm. James, O.W. Holmes, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, George Santayana and A.N. Whitehead will be examined. In addition, essays by contemporary American philosophers will be read.