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American Philosophers Shape a Distinctive U S Philosophy
A flagged editor notes America’s shift from a doer culture to a mature philosophical voice. It traces Emerson James Dewey and Peirce as defining figures, contrasts pragmatism with other schools, and cites Dewey’s instrumentalism and James’s psychology while acknowledging Europe’s influence and American public engagement gaps.
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de Toqueville
America
Europe
Lord Bryce
American Commonwealth
United States
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Sanders Peirce
Josiah Royce
William James
Royce
Peirce
James
Horace Kallen
John Dewey
Dewey
Aristotle
Hegel
Austria
Germany
England
Associated Press
Mortimer Adler
Cedar Rapids Sunday Gazette
George Santayana
Alfred North Whitehead
Santayana
Spain
Harvard
Whitehead
Adler
Emerson