Lawrence Cahoone
Biographic Data
| ID | 460693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Cahoone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahoone |
| SIGNATURE | CAHOONE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Emergence of Value
The Pluralist Revolt
Post–World War Two philosophy in America has been divided into the mainstream of analytic philosophy and a family of nonanalytic schools of thought, for example, continental philosophy and American pragmatism. The current balance of power among these perspectives reflects an event that occurred forty years ago: the “Pluralist Revolt” at the 1979 APA Eastern Division Meetings. What follows is a progress report on the Revolt’s hopes. The tale has s…
Mead and the Emergence of the Joint Intentional Self
What is the core of the distinctiveness of Homo sapiens? Some of the most famous hypotheses include tool use and tool making, language, free will and moral agency, self-consciousness, mind itself, and reason or rational problem-solving. All these answers are partly true. But recent work in comparative psychology, primatology, and cognitive science have converged on a conception of human distinctiveness that underlies these. Remarkably, it was exp…
The Metaphysics of Morris R. Cohen
Morris Cohen is mainly remembered as a philosopher of history and law, a friend of jurists (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter), and a teacher of more prominent philosophers (e.g., Ernest Nagel, Paul Weiss, Morton White). But his unique position as a student of the work of Russell and Peirce led him to make a distinctive contribution to the debate over realism in in the 1910s. Largely ignored and completely uncited, his early papers formula…
Is Stellar Nucleosynthesis a Good Thing
American Realism, Objective Relativism, Columbia Naturalism, and Justus Buchler
Justus Buchler’s metaphysics of natural complexes seems so unique as to be sui generis and to have little relation to the rest of the American tradition, even to the Columbia naturalists. Buchler’s reticence in naming influences gives us little guidance. We will find, however, that his key metaphysical ideas – ontological parity, neutrality, distributivity, and ordinality – derive from the debate over realism that dominated not only American phil…
The Orders of Nature
Cultural Revolutions
Cultural Revolutions argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. Lawrence Cahoone systematically defines culture and gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism. Cahoone offers a definition of culture as teleologically organized practices, artifacts, and narratives and analyzes the notion of cultural membership in relation to race, e…
From Modernism to Postmodernism
The Dilemma of Modernity
The development of modern culture along subjectivist lines has led to an analogue of psychological narcissism-to philosophical narcissism-in the culture. The intrinsic value of human cultural activity has been lost, and the intellectual foundation of the modern world-view has been destroyed. Cahoone carefully develops the idea of subjectivity and narcissism using psychological theory, the dialectical theory of the Frankfurt school, and historians…
Cassirer's Interpretation of Galileo
Mead and the Emergence of the Joint Intentional Self
What is the core of the distinctiveness of Homo sapiens? Some of the most famous hypotheses include tool use and tool making, language, free will and moral agency, self-consciousness, mind itself, and reason or rational problem-solving. All these answers are partly true. But recent work in comparative psychology, primatology, and cognitive science have converged on a conception of human distinctiveness that underlies these. Remarkably, it was exp…
The Orders of Nature
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Cassirer's Interpretation of Galileo
The Dilemma of Modernity
The development of modern culture along subjectivist lines has led to an analogue of psychological narcissism-to philosophical narcissism-in the culture. The intrinsic value of human cultural activity has been lost, and the intellectual foundation of the modern world-view has been destroyed. Cahoone carefully develops the idea of subjectivity and narcissism using psychological theory, the dialectical theory of the Frankfurt school, and historians…
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Cultural Revolutions
Cultural Revolutions argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. Lawrence Cahoone systematically defines culture and gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism. Cahoone offers a definition of culture as teleologically organized practices, artifacts, and narratives and analyzes the notion of cultural membership in relation to race, e…
The Orders of Nature
Is Stellar Nucleosynthesis a Good Thing
American Realism, Objective Relativism, Columbia Naturalism, and Justus Buchler
Justus Buchler’s metaphysics of natural complexes seems so unique as to be sui generis and to have little relation to the rest of the American tradition, even to the Columbia naturalists. Buchler’s reticence in naming influences gives us little guidance. We will find, however, that his key metaphysical ideas – ontological parity, neutrality, distributivity, and ordinality – derive from the debate over realism that dominated not only American phil…
The Metaphysics of Morris R. Cohen
Morris Cohen is mainly remembered as a philosopher of history and law, a friend of jurists (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Felix Frankfurter), and a teacher of more prominent philosophers (e.g., Ernest Nagel, Paul Weiss, Morton White). But his unique position as a student of the work of Russell and Peirce led him to make a distinctive contribution to the debate over realism in in the 1910s. Largely ignored and completely uncited, his early papers formula…
Mead and the Emergence of the Joint Intentional Self
What is the core of the distinctiveness of Homo sapiens? Some of the most famous hypotheses include tool use and tool making, language, free will and moral agency, self-consciousness, mind itself, and reason or rational problem-solving. All these answers are partly true. But recent work in comparative psychology, primatology, and cognitive science have converged on a conception of human distinctiveness that underlies these. Remarkably, it was exp…
The Pluralist Revolt
Post–World War Two philosophy in America has been divided into the mainstream of analytic philosophy and a family of nonanalytic schools of thought, for example, continental philosophy and American pragmatism. The current balance of power among these perspectives reflects an event that occurred forty years ago: the “Pluralist Revolt” at the 1979 APA Eastern Division Meetings. What follows is a progress report on the Revolt’s hopes. The tale has s…
The Emergence of Value
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (4 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Naturalism (3 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works)