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Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport(1st Edition)
by John Kaag, Richard Lally, Douglas Anderson, Anderson/Kaag/Lally, Dick Lally, Professor Douglas Anderson
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2012 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7840-9, ISBN: 0-7391-7840-7

"Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport explores the philosophical significance of sport – the phenomenological experience, the training, coaching, and the competition – from a uniquely pragmatic angle of vision. The philosophical insights of John Dewey, William James, C.S. Peirce, Jane Addams, and Josiah Royce shed new light on the meaning of the physical practices that take place on our soccer fields, national arenas, backyards, and pl ..."

Pragmatism with Purpose(1st Edition)
Selected Writings (American Philosophy (FUP))
by Peter Hare, Douglas R. Anderson, Steven A. Miller, Joseph Palencik, Stephen A. Miller, Professor Douglas Anderson, Douglas Anderson
Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2015 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6432-2, ISBN: 0-8232-6432-7

"Talcott Parsons, “Interaction: Social Interaction,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. David L. Sills (New York: Macmillan and Free Press, 1968), vol. 7,434. 2. John W. Petras, “The Genesis and Development of Symbolic Interactionism in American Sociology” (unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1966). Petras makes only a footnote reference to Royce (151) and no reference at all to Peirce and ..."

Philosophy Americana(1st Edition)
Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture (American Philosophy)
by Douglas R. Anderson, Professor Douglas Anderson
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2006 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2551-4, ISBN: 0-8232-2551-8

"In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy-the Greek love of wisdom-is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains relatively invisible. Anderson traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation. How might American philosophers talk to us about our ..."

The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin(1st Edition)
(New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
by Professor Douglas Anderson, Douglas R. Anderson
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1997 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-5445-3, ISBN: 0-8018-5445-8

"Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary... Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas à Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on the historical imagination of his readers--demands that are inevitably slighted by writers who em ..."