The chapters, written by leading experts on American philosophy, reexamine Josiah Royce’s work as a resource for contemporary thought. Themes include: metaphysics, phenomenology, logic; problems of individualism, loyalty, and community; practical matters of race, religious faith, and feminist epistemology, and Royce’s...
The chapters, written by leading experts on American philosophy, reexamine Josiah Royce’s work as a resource for contemporary thought. Themes include: metaphysics, phenomenology, logic; problems of individualism, loyalty, and community; practical matters of race, religious faith, and feminist epistemology, and Royce’s place in the history of philosophy.
This collection represents the rediscovery of Josiah Royce’s rich legacy that has occurred over the past decade.
The first part presents a series of historical explorations. The second takes up practical extensions of Royce’s work, bringing his ideas and methods to bear on contemporary philosophical matters. Among the topics addressed are the paradoxes of individualism; loyalty, democracy, and community; Royce’s efforts to respond to historical American racism; his contributions to engaged inter-faith religious discourse; the promise of his theory of error for a feminist account of knowledge; and his ethics of loyalty as a component in medical ethics.
Kelly A. Parker (Author) Kelly A. Parker is professor of philosophy, environmental studies, and liberal studies at Grand Valley State University. His research and writing focus on classical American philosophy, environmental pragmatism, and pragmatist aesthetics. Parker is the author of The Continuity of Peirce’s Thought (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998) and co-editor, with Krzyszt of Piotr Skowron´ski, of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations (Lexington Books, 2012). He is a past president and Fellow of the Josiah Royce Society.
Jason Bell (Author) Jason Bell is Research Fellow at the International Centre for Phenomenology and the Husserl Archives at the KU Leuven, and director of the Discovering the Origins of Pragmatism and Phenomenology Project at Mount Allison University. He served as 2010 2011 Fulbright Professor at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and has taught at Vanderbilt University, Oklahoma City University, and the University of Central Oklahoma. His current work is dedicated to exploring relations between pragmatism and phenomenology, particularly in the thought of Josiah Royce, C. S. Peirce, William James, Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Edith Stein.
