PeopleSlavic Languages and Literatures Faculty

 

John Smith

 



John E. Smith

Clark Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, and former Chairman
008 Timothy Dwight College
(203) 432-0756
john.smith@yale.edu


Areas of Interest
American Pragmatism and Idealism; Philosophy of Religion

Current or Recent Courses Taught

* Peirce's Evolutionary Philosophy
* The Essentials of Pragmatism
* Dewey and Whitehead on Education.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Reason and God, New Haven: Yale, 1961.

The Spirit of American Philosophy, New York: Oxford, 1963. Rev. ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983; Japanese trans. Tawagama U. Press, Tokyo, 1980; Indonesian trans. Jakarta, 1995.

Experience and God, New York: Oxford, 1968; repr. with new preface, New York: Fordham U. Press, 1995; Polish trans. Warsaw: PAX, 1971.

Themes in American Philosophy, New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

The Analogy of Experience, Warfield Lectures, New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of Pragmatism, Hutchinson/Yale, 1978; rev. ed. Chicago: Chicago U. Press, 1984; Chinese trans. Taiwan, 1983.

America’s Philosophical Vision, Chicago: Chicago U. Press, 1992.

Quasi-Religions: Humanism, Marxism, Nationalism, London: Macmillan, 1994.

ARTICLES

See bibliography in Reason, Experience, and God: J.E.Smith in dialogue, ed. Vincent Colapietro, New York: Fordham U. Press, 1997, pp.144-58.