A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today.
This is a splendid collection of articles about the major figures of the pragmatic tradition that also exhibits the vitality and diversity of this living tradition. Essential reading for anyone interested in the rich history, lively present debates, and promising future of pragmatic themes.
Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
Unusually for an encyclopedic account, A Companion to Pragmatism is not afraid to adopt a particular interpretive approach. The introduction draws challenging conclusions about the relative importance of Peirce, James, and Dewey, but both the major figures covered and the themes developed in the book expand far beyond this original triumvirate and demonstrate the vitality and expansiveness of pragmatist philosophy.
Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University
The essays, though assuming some acquaintance with the problems and history of philosophy, are clearly written and use a minimum of jargon. A brief but excellent introduction . . . and a good set of subject and name indexes complete the scholarly apparatus. Recommended.
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Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His recent books include The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (1993), Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium (1995), Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History (1995), and Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (2002).
List of Contributors viii
Preface x
Notes on Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective 1
Joseph Margolis
Part I MAJOR FIGURES 11
1 Charles Sanders Peirce 13
Vincent M. Colapietro
2 William James 30
Ellen Kappy Suckiel
3 F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism 44
John R. Shook
4 John Dewey 54
Philip W. Jackson
5 George Herbert Mead 67
Gary A. Cook
6 Jane Addams 79
Marilyn Fischer
7 Alain L. Locke 87
Leonard Harris
8 C. I. Lewis 94
Murray G. Murphey
9 W. V. Quine 101
Roger F. Gibson, Jr.
10 Hilary Putnam 108
Harvey J. Cormier
11 Jurgen Habermas 120
Joseph M. Heath
12 Richard Rorty 127
Kai Nielsen
Part II TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY 139
13 Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism 141
Susan Haack
14 Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism 154
Douglas R. Anderson
15 James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism 166
Timothy L. S. Sprigge
16 Hegel and Realism 177
Kenneth R. Westphal
17 Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism 184
Thomas M. Alexander
18 Expressivism and Mead's Social Self 193
Mitchell Aboulafia
19 Marxism and Critical Theory 202
Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.
20 Philosophical Hermeneutics 209
David Vessey
21 Language, Mind, and Naturalism in Analytic Philosophy 215
Bjorn T. Ramberg
22 Feminism 232
Shannon W. Sullivan
23 Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism 239
Joseph Margolis
24 Experience as Freedom 249
John J. McDermott
Part III CULTURE AND NATURE 255
25 Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism 257
Richard Rorty
26 Intelligence and Ethics 267
Hilary Putnam
27 Democracy and Value Inquiry 278
Ruth Anna Putnam
28 Liberal Democracy 290
Robert B. Westbrook
29 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach 301
Judith M. Green
30 Philosophy as Education 317
Jim Garrison
31 Creativity and Society 323
Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen
32 Religious Empiricism and Naturalism 336
Nancy K. Frankenberry
33 Aesthetics 352
Richard Shusterman
34 Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry 361
Jay Schulkin
35 Cognitive Science 369
Mark Johnson
36 Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method 378
Isaac Levi
37 Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism 386
Nicholas Rescher
38 Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism 398
Cheryl J. Misak
Name Index 410
Subject Index 420