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The Philosophy of Paul Weiss
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Broad, original, dynamic, prolific, and imaginative, Paul Weiss has made major contributions to several branches of philosophy, and because of him philosophy in this country is different for the better, more diverse, more vital, and more important.
As a speculative thinker he has tackled the great questions in philosophy and urged both the general public and other philosophers to do likewise in their own way. Readers will be interested in hearing how Paul Weiss the master of abstraction came to write about art and how he prepared for this by learning to draw and paint and engage in various other art forms. I am happy to report that we have managed to include a small sampling of his drawings in the volume.
In view of what he has written and what he has done for philosophy, it is especially important that his views be clarified and highlighted by the kind of critical exchange with twenty-eight of his leading critics provided in this volume.
Paul Weiss:
Intellectual Autobiography
(replies follow
essays)
Hans Lenk: Metaphysics, Interpretation and the
Subject
John Lachs: Metaphysics and the Social
Construction of Human Nature
Daniel O. Dahlstrom:
The
Dunamis of Explanation
Paul G. Kuntz:
Cosmos and Chaos:
Weiss's Systematic Categorization of the Universe
Andrew J.
Reck: The Five Ontologies of Paul Weiss
George R. Lucas,
Jr.: Philosophical Inquiry and Reflective Historical
Engagement--Some Right and Wrong Uses of History in Philosophy
Thomas R. Flynn: History and Histories: Weiss and the
Problematization of the Historical
Nathan Rotenstreich:
Experience and Possibilities
Sandra Rosenthal:
Paul Weiss
and Pragmatism: A Dialogue
Kevin Kennedy:
Adumbration and
Metaphysics after Pragmatism
Jay Schulkin:
Paul Weiss's
Vision of Philosophy and Nature
Eric Walther:
The Self
Revisited
David Weissman: Method
Abner E. Shimony: The Transient Now
Jackquelyn Ann K. Kegley: Is Adventurous
Humility Possible?: The One for the Many
Eugene T. Long:
Philosophy and Religious Pluralism
Robert C. Neville:
Paul
Weiss's Theology
Robert Castiglione:
Weiss's Early
Substitutional Logic: The Rejection and Interpretation of Russell's
Paradoxes of Self-Reference
Eugenio Benitez:
Paul Weiss,
Metaphysics and the Problem of Induction
Richard L. Barber:
Real Possibility and Moral Obligation
Antonio S. Cua:
Reasonable Persons and the Good: Reflections on an Aspect of Weiss'
Ethical Thought
Thomas Krettek: Paul Weiss and the
Foundations of Political Philosophy
William J.
Desmond: Creativity and the Dunamis
George Kimball Plochmann: System, Method, and Style in a Philosophy of Art
Carl R.
Hausman: Paul Weiss's Account of the Dynamic Structure of
Creative Acts
Robert E. Wood: Paul Weiss: Metaphysics and
Aesthetics
Daniel A. Dombrowski: Weiss, Sport, and the
Greek Ideal
Spencer K. Wertz: The Metaphysics of Sport:
The Play as Process
Bibliography of the Writings of Paul Weiss
Index by S.S. Rama Rao Pappu
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