The essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience offer a survey of the ways that “resilience” is becoming a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications. As a concept with multiple theoretical and practical meanings, “resilience” promises considerable explanatory power. At the same time, current uses of the concept can be diverse and at times inconsistent. The American philosop...

Mark Ruiz’s life is a structured routine full of well-worn grooves. Board meetings. Dinner with clients. Preparing presentations. Exhaustingly long days strung together over forty-one years of hard work. Retirement is the promise he makes to himself. The item on his list he can’t wait to check off.The problem? Retirement is better in theory than in practice. Three months in he realizes his new phase of life is as stale as the slice of cake they sent him home with on his last day at...

For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and the region’s economic future. As humans continue to divert its waters for agriculture and mine its marshlands for industry, Great Salt Lake could vanish entirely within five years. A refuge for more than ...

Seit einem Jahrzehnt arbeitet Ivy Rose Sullivan als Kellnerin in New York, doch ihr Traum vom glücklichen Leben in der Megacity hat sich nicht erfüllt, und sie sehnt sich nach ihrer Heimat Snowlake City in Montana. Wäre der Flug nur nicht so teuer! Der bekannte Millionär und Junggeselle Miles Mcilroy feiert den Beginn der New Yorker Weihnachtszeit in einem angesagten Restaurant und lernt dort Ivy kennen. Die Frau umgibt eine besondere Ausstrahlung, die ihn in ihren Bann zieht. Weil er eine...