James Conant
Biographic Data
| ID | 363353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Conant |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Conant |
| SIGNATURE | CONANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Practical Reason in Historical and Systematic Perspective: Historical and Systematic Perspectives
The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understandi…
Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John Mcdowell
Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
Why Kant Is Not a Kantian
A central debate in early modern philosophy, between empiricism and rationalism, turned on the question which of two cognitive faculties—sensibility or understanding—should be accorded logical priority in an account of the epistemic credentials of knowledge. As against both the empiricist and the rationalist, Kant wants to argue that the terms of their debate rest on a shared common assumption: namely that the capacities here in question—qua cogn…
Rethinking Epistemology: Volume 2
This volume contains contributions to the “systematic study of knowledge.” They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the second volume are the following: variants of skepticism; knowledge of the first, second, and third person; practical knowledge and the structure of action; knowledge and the problem of dualism; and disjunctivism concerning experience and perception.
The Triumph of the Gift over the Curse in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know
The Triumph of the Gift over the Curse in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know James Conant The remarks below were first delivered on the occasion of an event at Harvard University, on October 14th, 2010, celebrating the publication of Stanley Cavell's autobiographical work, Little Did I Know. Each of the invited speakers was given the following instructions by the organizers of the event: (1) to select a handful of passages from Little Did I Know …
Rethinking epistemology: Volume 1
This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: concepts and forms of knowledge, epistemic perspectivism, knowledge and world-views, perceptual knowledge, scientific knowledge, models in science, distributed and integrated knowledge, interaction of forms of knowledge, and relation between forms of …
Elucidation and Nonsense in Frege and Early Wittgenstein
Orwell et la dictature des intellectuels
The Dialectic of Perspectivism, II
V. Varieties of Pseudo-Kantianism As we have seen, the crucial step in Nietzsche’s argument for his early doctrine is summed by in the following remark: ‘If we are forced to comprehend all things only under these forms, then it ceases to be amazing that in all things we actually comprehend nothing but these forms’ (1979, pp. 87–8). Before eventually learning to be suspicious of it, Nietzsche spends a good deal of time wondering instead what it wo…
The Dialectic of Perspectivism, I
It is often said that the study of human life is concerned with providing an understanding of its objects, whereas it is the task of the natural sciences to explain its objects. There is undoubtedly something right about this: there are, of course, profound differences between different branches of inquiry. However, I want to question how far a contrast phrased in terms of ‘explanation’ and ‘understanding’ can actually help make these differences…
The concept of America
In the Electoral Colony: Kafka in Florida
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Nietzsche's Perfectionism: A Reading of Schopenhauer as Educator
Nietzsche says that the worst readers are those "who proceed like plundering soldiers ... picking up only those few things they can use ... and blaspheming the whole" (HH II:I:137), and that the best readers are those who patiently develop an eye for the whole and know that reading must be practiced as an art – an art that "has been unlearned most thoroughly nowadays" (GM P:8).
The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview
Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use
Comparing Dummett's and Putnam's Realisms
Journal Article Comparing Dummett’s and Putnam’s Realisms Get access The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. By Michael Dummett. (The William James Lectures, 1976.) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1991. Pp. xiv + 353. Price $42.25 h/b, $19.95 p/b.)Realism with a Human Face. By Hilary Putnam. Edited and Introduced by James Conant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990. Pp. lxxiv + 347. Price $30.00.) Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis Temple University Search …
On Bruns, on Cavell
Reorganization and the Bottom Line
Many candidates for the presidency, including Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, have promised to reduce the cost and improve the performance of government. At the state level, gubernatorial candidates often make similar promises. Once elected, some of these new chief executives actually do attempt to follow through on their promises. They generally appoint a study commission to analyze the organization and admini…
Presidents'-Eye-View of the History of Higher Education
Shaping Educational Policy
George Sarton and Harvard University
Why Kant Is Not a Kantian
A central debate in early modern philosophy, between empiricism and rationalism, turned on the question which of two cognitive faculties—sensibility or understanding—should be accorded logical priority in an account of the epistemic credentials of knowledge. As against both the empiricist and the rationalist, Kant wants to argue that the terms of their debate rest on a shared common assumption: namely that the capacities here in question—qua cogn…
Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use
Reorganization and the Bottom Line
Many candidates for the presidency, including Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, have promised to reduce the cost and improve the performance of government. At the state level, gubernatorial candidates often make similar promises. Once elected, some of these new chief executives actually do attempt to follow through on their promises. They generally appoint a study commission to analyze the organization and admini…
George Sarton and Harvard University
On Bruns, on Cavell
The concept of America
George Sarton and Harvard University
Shaping Educational Policy
Presidents'-Eye-View of the History of Higher Education
Reorganization and the Bottom Line
Many candidates for the presidency, including Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, have promised to reduce the cost and improve the performance of government. At the state level, gubernatorial candidates often make similar promises. Once elected, some of these new chief executives actually do attempt to follow through on their promises. They generally appoint a study commission to analyze the organization and admini…
On Bruns, on Cavell
Comparing Dummett's and Putnam's Realisms
Journal Article Comparing Dummett’s and Putnam’s Realisms Get access The Logical Basis of Metaphysics. By Michael Dummett. (The William James Lectures, 1976.) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1991. Pp. xiv + 353. Price $42.25 h/b, $19.95 p/b.)Realism with a Human Face. By Hilary Putnam. Edited and Introduced by James Conant. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990. Pp. lxxiv + 347. Price $30.00.) Joseph Margolis Joseph Margolis Temple University Search …
Wittgenstein on Meaning and Use
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Nietzsche's Perfectionism: A Reading of Schopenhauer as Educator
Nietzsche says that the worst readers are those "who proceed like plundering soldiers ... picking up only those few things they can use ... and blaspheming the whole" (HH II:I:137), and that the best readers are those who patiently develop an eye for the whole and know that reading must be practiced as an art – an art that "has been unlearned most thoroughly nowadays" (GM P:8).
The Road since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, with an Autobiographical Interview
In the Electoral Colony: Kafka in Florida
The concept of America
The Dialectic of Perspectivism, I
It is often said that the study of human life is concerned with providing an understanding of its objects, whereas it is the task of the natural sciences to explain its objects. There is undoubtedly something right about this: there are, of course, profound differences between different branches of inquiry. However, I want to question how far a contrast phrased in terms of ‘explanation’ and ‘understanding’ can actually help make these differences…
The Dialectic of Perspectivism, II
V. Varieties of Pseudo-Kantianism As we have seen, the crucial step in Nietzsche’s argument for his early doctrine is summed by in the following remark: ‘If we are forced to comprehend all things only under these forms, then it ceases to be amazing that in all things we actually comprehend nothing but these forms’ (1979, pp. 87–8). Before eventually learning to be suspicious of it, Nietzsche spends a good deal of time wondering instead what it wo…
Orwell et la dictature des intellectuels
Elucidation and Nonsense in Frege and Early Wittgenstein
The Triumph of the Gift over the Curse in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know
The Triumph of the Gift over the Curse in Stanley Cavell's Little Did I Know James Conant The remarks below were first delivered on the occasion of an event at Harvard University, on October 14th, 2010, celebrating the publication of Stanley Cavell's autobiographical work, Little Did I Know. Each of the invited speakers was given the following instructions by the organizers of the event: (1) to select a handful of passages from Little Did I Know …
Rethinking epistemology: Volume 1
This volume contains contributions to the "systematic study of knowledge." They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the first volume are the following: concepts and forms of knowledge, epistemic perspectivism, knowledge and world-views, perceptual knowledge, scientific knowledge, models in science, distributed and integrated knowledge, interaction of forms of knowledge, and relation between forms of …
Rethinking Epistemology: Volume 2
This volume contains contributions to the “systematic study of knowledge.” They suggest both an extension and a new path for classical epistemology. The topics in the second volume are the following: variants of skepticism; knowledge of the first, second, and third person; practical knowledge and the structure of action; knowledge and the problem of dualism; and disjunctivism concerning experience and perception.
Why Kant Is Not a Kantian
A central debate in early modern philosophy, between empiricism and rationalism, turned on the question which of two cognitive faculties—sensibility or understanding—should be accorded logical priority in an account of the epistemic credentials of knowledge. As against both the empiricist and the rationalist, Kant wants to argue that the terms of their debate rest on a shared common assumption: namely that the capacities here in question—qua cogn…
Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John Mcdowell
Practical Reason in Historical and Systematic Perspective: Historical and Systematic Perspectives
The idea that there is a distinctively practical use of reason, and correspondingly a distinctively practical form of knowledge, unites many otherwise diverse voices in the history of practical philosophy: from Aristotle to Kant, from Rousseau to Marx, from Hegel to G.E.M. Anscombe, and many others. This volume gathers works by scholars who take inspiration from these and many other historical figures in order to deepen our systematic understandi…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)