Pragmatic Reason

Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway's work and its significance for contemporary discussions of the understanding of mind, meaning, knowledge, and value.

Auteur

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of over 100 academic articles and more than 10 books, including Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side (2021).

Paniel Reyes Cárdenas was made lecturer and researcher at UPAEP (People's Autonomous University of Puebla State, Puebla, Mexico) where he is now chair of philosophy of language and medieval philosophy. Paniel is part of the national council for research of Mexico, awarded SNI 1 for his research work. As a junior scholar, Paniel was awarded as Honorary Researcher by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Sheffield in 2017. Paniel has published Scholastic Realism (2018) and Ideas in Development (2018).

Daniel Herbert has held research and lecturing positions at the University of Sheffield, UPAEP (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Puebla) and King's College London. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield and has published research on several figures from the history of philosophy, including Kant, Nietzsche, Bradley, Peirce, James, Husserl, Cassirer, and Sartre.