A Companion To Pragmatism

by Shook, John R.; Margolis, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9781405188333
• ISBN10: 1405188332
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. Unique in depth and coverage of classical figures and their philosophies as well as pragmatism as a living force in philosophy. Chapters include discussions on philosophers such as John Dewey, J8rgen Habermas and Hilary Putnam.

Author Biography

John R. Shook is Vice President for Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry, and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo. He is author of Dewey’s Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (2000), editor of Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism (2003), and editor of the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (2005). He is also co-editor of the journal Contemporary Pragmatism.

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).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Notes on Abbreviations

Introduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective

Major Figures

Charles Sanders Peirce

William James

F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatists

John Dewey

George H. Mead

Jane Addams

Alain Locke

C. I. Lewis

W. V. Quine

Hilary Putnam

J8rgen Habermas

Richard Rorty

Transforming Philosophy

Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons From Peirce

Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism

James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism

Hegel and Realism

Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism

Expressivism and Mead's Social Self

Marxism and Critical Theory

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Analytic Philosophy

Feminism

Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism

Experience as Freedom

Culture and Nature

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

Intelligence and Ethics

Democracy and Value Inquiry

Liberal Democracy

Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy

Philosophy as Education

Creativity and Society

Religious Empiricism and Naturalism

Aesthetics

Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry

Cognitive Science

Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method

Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism

Scientific Realism, Antirealism, and Empiricism

Name Index

Subject Index

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