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Oligarchic Structures and Majority Faction

Philosophical Essays on Morals, History and Politics

By: H.G. Callaway

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High hopes for global prosperity have given way to crisis, division, and conflict. This book places contemporary threats to American democracy and the rise of authoritarian systems within the context of US history, moral authority, and the need for constitutional balance.

The papers assembled in this book originated from, and span, the recent decades of intensive economic globalization and international interaction—up to the present period of…

The papers assembled in this book originated from, and span, the recent decades of intensive economic globalization and international interaction—up to the present period of the commercialized, digital world—accompanied by American and international crisis. High hopes of the benefits of trade expansion, international cooperation, growing prosperity and a “rules-based” international order have given way to the unpredictable contingencies of human action and history, pandemics, severe economic and social dislocations, domestic division, frequent political dysfunction and growing threats of intensified international conflict. This book places contemporary problems of American democracy and the threat of authoritarian systems within the context of the success and failures of American history, problems of moral authority in American society and the need for political and moral balance in the US constitutional system.

Professor H.G. Callaway has published widely in the US and in Europe on the philosophy of language and mind, starting with Context for Meaning and Analysis (1993), and on American moral-intellectual history. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy and, has lectured and taught at universities both in the US and in Europe, and at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His work includes scores of professional articles and reviews, critical editions of works by R.W. Emerson and William James and a critical study of the writings of Edmund Burke—focused on the American crisis of the eighteenth century. Callaway’s collection of essays, Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy: A Minority Report was published in 2017. More recently, he published studies of Alexander Hamilton and the politics of the Gilded Age (2019) and a book focused on Lincoln Steffens and Gilded Age corruption and reform (2020). His most recent published volume is a critical edition of William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism (2022).

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-8962-5
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8962-9
Date of Publication: 2022-09-30

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ISBN: 1-0364-2988-1
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-2988-1
Date of Publication: 2024-12-13

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Categories: Social Sciences, Philosophy, Philosophy, Politics

Pages: 380

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BIC: HPS, JPA, JPHV
THEMA: QDTS, JPA, JPHV

Pages: 380

"Aimed at a specialized audience, Callaway's work presents a timely balance around the values that have made possible American democratic life and how today, for lack of historical perspective, they are put into play, which entails a disintegration of the social fabric in the face of the loss of unity between beliefs, ideas and ways of seeing the world."
- Diego A. Manrique Anuario Filosófico 56: 2 (2023)

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H.G. Callaway

Functional Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind

Intentional Realism in Cognitive Psychology

By: H.G. Callaway

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This book connects language, mind, and consciousness, focusing on thinkers like Quine, Davidson, and Dennett. Its organizing theme is a contextual approach to meaning that builds on William James’s functional psychology and anticipates a contemporary revival of his work.

Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy

A Minority Report

By: H.G. Callaway

£64.99

Callaway defends democratic individualism against more collectivist and corporatist tendencies in contemporary neo-pragmatism, and draws upon up-to-date political analysis in order to justify America’s long republican tradition.

Arthur S. Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

Gifford Lectures of 1927, An Annotated Edition

By: H.G. Callaway

£57.99

Arthur S. Eddington was a prominent scientist famed for confirming Einstein’s theory of relativity and interpreting modern physics for the public. His classic book, The Nature of the Physical World, had a significant influence on the understanding of 20th-century physics.

Memories and Portraits

Explorations in American Thought

By: H.G. Callaway

£39.99

Philosopher H. G. Callaway blends history and autobiography in a narrative of travel across three continents. He illuminates American thought through fascinating cultural contrasts, merging the formalism of analytic philosophy with American pragmatism.

Meaning without Analyticity

Essays on Logic, Language and Meaning

By: H.G. Callaway

£34.99

This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.

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