On knowing: the social sciences - 57734

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy - across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics - and showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem.

The roots of this work are traced to McKeon's classes where he blended philosophy with physics, ethics, politics, history, and aesthetics.

This volume leaves behind natural science themes to embrace freedom, power, and history, which, McKeon argues, lay out the whole field of human action.