American Philosophies An Anthology [Hardcover]

Introduction.

Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy (Leonard Harris).

Part I: Origin and Teleology.

1. Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians, 1493 (King Ferdinand of Aragon).

2. Speeches (Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha).

3. How the World Began (Arthur C. Parker).

4. The Interesting Narrative (Olaudah Equian).

5. A History of New York (Washington Irving).

6. Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Part II: Minds and Selves.

7. Impressions of an Indian Childhood (Zit Kala Sa).

8. Of Being and Original Sin (Jonathan Edwards).

9. Principles of Psychology (William James).

10. Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature (Josiah Royce).

11. Our Brains and What Ails Them (Charlotte Perkins Gilman).

12. Race (W. E. B. Du Bois).

13. The Genesis of the Self and Social Control (George Herbert Mead).

Part III: Knowledge and Inquiry.

14. Knowledge (Frances Wright).

15. An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman (Cadwallader Colden).

16. What Pragmatism Is (Charles Sanders Peirce).

17. The Supremacy of Method (John Dewey).

18. The Practice of Philosophy (Susanne K. Langer).

19. An American Urphilosophie (Robert Bunge).

Part IV: Community and Power.