Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays

by Stuhr, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780195118292
• ISBN10: 0195118294
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Here, in a single volume, is a comprehensive and definitive account ofpragmatism and classical American philosophy.Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy, now revised and expanded in thissecond edition, presents the essential writings of the major philosophers ofthis tradition: Charles S. Peirce, William James, Josiah Royce, GeorgeSantayana, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead. Illuminating introductoryessays, written especially for this volume by distinguished scholars of Americanphilosophy, provide biographical and cultural context as well as originalcritical and interpretive perspectives. This edition also includes all newselections and interpretive essays that situate pragmatism and classicalAmerican philosophy in a wider American philosphical context, including: RalphWaldo Emerson and transcendentalism; Jane Addams, feminism, and writings ofAmerican women; Borden Parker Bowne, personalism, and idealism; Alain Locke andAfro-American thought; and John Herman Randall, Jr., nationalism and realism.Up-to-date suggestions for further reading will benefit both introductory andadvanced readers.This American intellectual tradition speaks insightfully, creatively, andcritically to our contemporary global society and its pressing problems. Inunmatched quality and quantity, Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophyprovides the resources necessary to understand and act on these insights.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Classical American Philosophy	1	(12)
John J. Stuhr
I. Prologue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction: ``Emerson,'' a Memorial Address	13	(30)
William James
The American Scholar	17	(10)
Self-Reliance	27	(13)
Suggestions for Further Reading	40	(3)
II. Classical American Philosophy
Charles Sanders Peirce
Introduction	43	(97)
Vincent Colapietro
Some Consequences of Four Incapacities	54	(13)
The Fixation of Belief	67	(10)
How to Make Our Ideas Clear	77	(11)
The Doctrine of Necessity Examined	88	(9)
The Categories and the Study of Signs	97	(8)
What Pragmatism Is	105	(11)
Issues of Pragmaticism	116	(10)
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God	126	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	138	(2)
William James
Introduction	140	(104)
John J. McDermott
The Types of Philosophic Thinking	151	(10)
The Stream of Thought	161	(20)
A World of Pure Experience	181	(12)
What Pragmatism Means	193	(10)
The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life	203	(12)
The Dilemma of Determinism	215	(15)
The Will to Believe	230	(11)
Suggestions for Further Reading	241	(3)
Josiah Royce
Introduction	244	(96)
Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
The Temporal and the Eternal	259	(16)
The Body and the Members	275	(12)
The Will to Interpret	287	(13)
Loyalty to Loyalty, Truth, and Reality	300	(16)
Loyalty and Religion	316	(10)
Provincialism	326	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	338	(2)
George Santayana
Introduction	340	(91)
John Lachs
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy	348	(11)
Some Meanings of the Word ``Is''	359	(9)
Scepticism	368	(3)
Essence	371	(10)
Substance	381	(7)
Teleology and Psyche	388	(9)
Hypostatic Ethics	397	(6)
The Implied Being of Truth	403	(4)
The Nature of Spirit	407	(8)
Liberation	415	(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading	429	(2)
John Dewey
Introduction	431	(109)
John J. Stuhr
The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy	445	(1)
The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism	445	(15)
Experience and Philosophic Method	460	(11)
Existence as Precarious and Stable	471	(5)
Nature, Communication and Meaning	476	(6)
The Pattern of Inquiry	482	(9)
Education as Growth	491	(7)
The Lost Individual	498	(6)
Search for The Great Community	504	(14)
The Live Creature and Aesthetic Experience	518	(12)
Faith and Its Object	530	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	538	(2)
George Herbert Mead
Introduction	540	(85)
James Campbell
The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol	555	(4)
Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol	559	(4)
Meaning	563	(4)
The Nature of Reflective Intelligence	567	(5)
The Nature of Scientific Knowledge	572	(9)
Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other	581	(8)
The ``I'' and the ``Me''	589	(3)
The Philosophical Basis of Ethics	592	(6)
Realism, Pragmatism, and Science	598	(8)
The Present as the Locus of Reality	606	(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading	620	(5)
III. Contexts
Feminism and the Writings of American Women
Introduction	625	(21)
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Charitable Effort	631	(13)
Jane Addams
Suggestions for Further Reading	644	(2)
American Idealism and Personalism
Introduction	646	(21)
Thomas O. Buford
The Failure of Impersonalism	653	(12)
Borden Parker Bowne
Suggestions for Further Reading	665	(2)
African-American Philosophy
Introduction	667	(22)
Leonard Harris
The Ethics of Culture	671	(5)
Alain Locke
Values and Imperatives	676	(10)
Alain Locke
Suggestions for Further Reading	686	(3)
American Naturalism
Introduction	689	(18)
John Ryder
Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature	696	(11)
John Herman Randall, Jr.
Suggestions for Further Reading	707