In Knowledge, Art, and Power John Ryder develops a pragmatic naturalist theory of experience that posits the cognitive (knowledge), the aesthetic (art), and the political (power) as the most general and pervasive dimensions of all human experience.
John Ryder, Ph.D. (1982), Stony Brook University (SUNY), is Provost and Professor Emeritus at the American University of Malta. He is the author of Interpreting America (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999) and The Things in Heaven and Earth (Fordham University Press, 2013), and co-founder of the Central European Pragmatist Forum.