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Pragmatism

Three Volume Set
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July 2004 | 1 048 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The dramatic resurgence of American Pragmatism was one of the most important intellectual developments in the Twentieth Century. As the influence of this revitalised movement continues to spread across a variety of disciplines ranging from law to literary theory, the time is ripe for a considered reassessment of both its origins in the works of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey and its later revival in the hands of thinkers such as Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam.

This three-volume collection gathers together the necessary material for just such an 'assessment'. As such, it will an invaluable research tool for scholars and students who need to understand the significance of Pragmatism's unique place in the history of ideas.

Alan Malachowski is an Honorary Lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of East Anglia.


 
VOLUME ONE: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRAGMATISM
Alan Malachowski
Introduction
Possibilities of Pragmatism

 
 
PART ONE
John Dewey
The Development of American Pragmatism
Louis Menand
Pragmatisms
 
PART TWO
Charles S Peirce
The Fixation of Belief
Charles S Peirce
How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Charles S Peirce
What Pragmatism Is
Charles S Peirce
Issues of Pragmatism
Charles S Peirce
Philosophy and the Conduct of Life
 
PART THREE
William James
The Will to Believe
William James
The Pragmatic Method
William James
What Pragmatism Means
William James
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
William James
The Meaning of the Word Truth
 
PART FOUR
John Dewey
What Pragmatism Means by Practical
John Dewey
The Practical Character of Reality
John Dewey
The Construction of Good
John Dewey
The Pattern of Inquiry
John Dewey
Education as Growth
 
PART FIVE
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circles
George Herbert Mead
The Social Self
Clarence Irving Lewis
A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
 
VOLUME TWO: THE REVIVAL OF PRAGMATISM
 
PART ONE
W V Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Sydney Hook
Thinking as Instrumental
Richard Bernstein
Pragmatism, Pluralism and the Healing of Wounds
Richard Rorty
Pragmatism, Relativism and Irrationalism
Hilary Putnam
Pragmatism and Relativism
Universal Values and Traditional Ways of Life

 
 
PART TWO
David Wiggins
C S Peirce
Belief, Truth and Going from the Known to the Unknown

 
Christopher Hookway
Truth and the Convergence of Opinion
Hilary Putnam
James's Theory of Truth
Graham Bird
Radical Empiricism
Richard Rorty
Dewey's Metaphysics
James Campbell
Dewey and Democracy
Mark Bauerlein
Thinking in the Emersonian Way
 
PART THREE
Alan Wolfe
The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science
Patrick Heelan and Jay Schulkin
Hermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism
A Philosophy of Science

 
Robert Kraut
Varieties of Pragmatism
Douglas McDermid
Pragmatism and Truth
The Comparison Objection to Correspondence

 
Danielle Macbeth
Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language
Alan Malachowski
Pragmatism in Its Own Right
David Luban
What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism?
Rupert Read
Culture, Nature, Eocosystem (or 'Why Nature Can't Be Naturalised')
 
VOLUME THREE: CRITICAL RESPONSES
 
PART ONE
G E Moore
William James' 'Pragmatism'
Bertrand Russell
Professor Dewey's 'Essays in Experimental Logic'
Bertrand Russell
Dewey's New Logic
William James
The Pragmatist Account of Truth and Its Misunderstanders
T L S Sprigge
James, Aboutness and His British Critics
Joseph Margolis
The Relevance of Dewey's Epistemology
Mark Bauerlein
Peirce's Logic of Pragmatic Inference
 
PART TWO
Teed Rockwell
Rorty, Putnam and the Pragmatist View of Epistemology and Metaphysics
Paul D Foster
What is at Stake Between Putnam and Rorty?
Garry Brodsky
Rorty's Interpretation of Pragmatism
Ryan E Cull
The Betrayal of Pragmatism
Rorty's Quarrel with James

 
Christopher Norris
Philosophy as a Kind of Narrative
Rorty on Post-Modern Liberal Culture

 
Simon Critchley
Deconstruction and Pragmatism
Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?

 
Alan Malachowski
Pragmatism Minus Truth/No Limit
 
PART THREE
Eric A MacGilvray
Five Myths about Pragmatism, or, Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence
Matthew Festenstein
Pragmatism, Social Democracy and Political Argument
Hilary Putnam
Pragmatism
Stanley Cavell
What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?
Giles Gunn
Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism
Alan Malachowski
Pragmatism, Philosophy and Ways of Living