A companion to pragmatism

434 Pages·2006·2.29 MB·english

by  John R. Shook

A Companion to Pragmatism
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A Companion to
Pragmatism
Edited by
John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis
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Contents
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.
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10 Hilary Putnam 108
Harvey J. Cormier
11 Jürgen 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
Bjørn 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
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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
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List of Contributors
Mitchell Aboulafia is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
Thomas M. Alexander is Professor of Philosophy atSouthern Illinois University at
Carbondale.
Douglas R. Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
Vincent M. Colapietro is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University.
Gary A. Cook is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Beloit College.
Harvey J. Cormier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at State University of New
York at Stony Brook.
Marilyn Fischer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton.
Nancy K. Frankenberry is Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College.
Jim Garrison is Professor of Education at Virginia Tech University.
Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. is Director of the American Philosophy Study Center in Brazil,
and Titular Professor of Philosophy at São Marcus University, Brazil.
Roger F. Gibson, Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, St Louis.
Judith M. Green is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
Susan Haack is Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy,
and Professor of Law at the University of Miami.
Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.
Joseph M. Heath is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Uni-
versity of Toronto.
Philip W. Jackson is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Psychology and
Education at the University of Chicago.
Hans Joas is Director and Fellowof the Max Weber College for AdvancedCultural and
Social Studies at the Universität Erfurt.
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list of contributors
Mark Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.
Erkki Kilpinen is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Helsinki.
Joseph Margolis is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
Isaac Levi is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University.
John J. McDermott is Professor of Philosophy atTexas A&M University.
Cheryl J. Misak is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Murray G. Murphey is Professor Emeritus of History at the University ofPennsylvania.
Kai Nielsen is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University.
Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor Emeritusof Philosophy at Harvard
University.
Ruth Anna Putnam is Professor Emerita of Philosophy atWellesley College.
Bjørn T. Ramberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.
Nicholas Rescher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Richard Rorty is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
Jay Schulkin is Research Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown
University.
John R. Shook is Associate Professor of Philosophy atOklahoma State University.
Richard M. Shusterman is Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University.
Timothy L. S. Sprigge is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellowof the School of
Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Ellen Kappy Suckiel is Professor of Philosophy atthe University of California, Santa
Cruz.
Shannon W. Sullivan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State
University.
David Vessey is a Lecturer in the Collegiate Division of the Humanities at the Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Robert B. Westbrook is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
Kenneth R. Westphal is Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the University of East
Anglia.
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Preface
This volume of essays on pragmatism presents the highlights of its history, approach-
ing a century and a half duration, and also discusses pragmatism’s main goals as it
looks forward to continuing to make a large impact on philosophy. This volume is
organized into three sections. Part I, “Major Figures,” provides chapters about a dozen
of the most prominent contributors to pragmatic thought. Part II, “Transforming
Philosophy,” gathers discussions of ways that pragmatism has raised challenges to
rival philosophical views, and also has offered alliances with a variety of philosophers
and movements. Part III, “Culture and Nature,” offers chapters which describe how
pragmatism can treat a broad range of philosophical topics ranging across ethics,
politics, education, social theory, religion, aesthetics, epistemology, cognitive science,
philosophy of science, and metaphysics. The chapters’ bibliographies offer extensive
guidance to useful further reading.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to the contributors to this volume, for their enthu-
siasm for this project and willingness to develop a good fit between their expertise and
our vision for the contents. While several topics in the end could not be pursued, and
some potential authors could not or would not contribute, we prefer to emphasize how
pleased we are at the high quality of the chapters and their overall coherence together.
The contributors have made this project very enjoyable and they deserve all of the
credit for its considerable scholarly value.
We would like to extend our warmest thanks to Jeff Dean, our editor at Blackwell,
for his encouraging support and wise advice at all stages of this project.
We and the publisher gratefully acknowledge the permission granted to reproduce
the following copyright material in this book:
Chapter 1: Vincent M. Colapietro, “Charles Sanders Pierce,” pp. 75–100 from Armen T.
Marsoobian and John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2004. © 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Reprinted by permission of
the publisher.
Chapter 7: Leonard Harris, “Alain L. Locke,” pp. 263–70 from Armen T. Marsoobian and
John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
2004. © 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Chapter 25: Richard Rorty, “Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism,” pp. 7–20 from Revue
Internationale de Philosophie 207. © 1999 by Revue Internationale de Philosophie. Re-
printed by permission of the journal.
John R. Shook, Joseph Margolis
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