Recent American Philosophy: Studies of Ten Representative Thinkers

xxiii, 343 pp. The golden age of American philosophy, stretching from the Civil War to the eye of the Great Depression embraces the works of Charles Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred North Whitehead. In addition to these six classic American philosophers, numerous other thinkers have made impressive contributions which enhance the eminence of American thought in the contemporary world. The ten thinkers selected for this study in the present volume are: Ralph Barton Perry, William Ernest Hocking, George Herbert Mead, John Elof Boodin, Wilbur Marshall Urban, DeWitt H. Parker, Roy Wood Sellars, Arthur O. Lovejoy, Elijah Jordan, and Edgar Sheffield Brightman.--jacket