Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy

"The new edition of Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy will be much appreciated by teachers of American philosophy courses. We now have in one volume a broad range of excellently chosen materials and well-written introductory essays that we have needed for some time."--Michael Eldridge, University of North Carolina, Charlotte"What a fine collection! The essays chosen from the canon are perfect. . . .The feminist and African American sections are real assets and move toward making this subject more truly representative of American culture."--Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin, Madison"Now in its second edition, with 'Pragmatism' added to the title and expanded in scope to include Emerson and some of the contemporary thought that helps put classical pragmatism into context, Stuhr's anthology is sure to become a classic in its own right....The best collection of its kind."--Peirce Project Newsletter

• Contributors ; Preface ; INTRODUCTION: CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY ; I. PROLOGUE ; RALPH WALDO EMERSON ; Introduction ; The American Scholar ; Self-Reliance ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; II. CLASSICAL AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY ; CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE ; Introduction ; Some Consequences of Four Incapacities ; The Fixation of Belief ; How to Make Our Ideas Clear ; The Doctrine of Necessity Examined ; The Categories and the Study of Signs ; What Pragmatism Is ; Issues of Pragmatism ; A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; WILLIAM JAMES ; Introduction ; The Types of Philosophic Thinking ; The Stream of Thought ; A World of Pure Experience ; What Pragmatism Means ; The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life ; The Dilemma of Determinism ; The Will to Believe ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; JOSIAH ROYCE ; Introduction ; The Temporal and the Eternal ; The Body and the Members ; The Will to Interpret ; Loyalty to Loyalty, Truth, and Reality ; Loyalty and Religion ; Provincialism ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; GEORGE SANTAYANA ; Introduction ; The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy ; Some Meanings of the Word "Is" ; Skepticism ; Essence ; Substance ; Teleology and Psyche ; Hypostatic Ethics ; The Implied Being of Truth ; Spirit ; Liberation ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; JOHN DEWEY ; Introduction ; The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy ; The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism ; Experience and Philosophic Method ; Existence as Precarious and Stable ; Nature, Communication, and Meaning ; The Pattern of Inquiry ; Education as Growth ; The Lost Individual ; Search for the Great Community ; The Live Creature and Aesthetic Experience ; Faith and Its Object ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; GEORGE HERBERT MEAD ; Introduction ; The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol ; Thought, Communicaitn, and the Signficant Symbol ; Meaning ; The Nature of Reflective Intelligence ; The Nature of Scientific Knowledge ; Play, the Game, and the Generalized OTher ; The "I" and the "Me" ; The Philosophical Basis of Ethics ; Science Raises Problems for Philosophy - Realism and Pragmatism ; The Present as the Locus of Reality ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; III. CONTEXTS ; FEMINISM AND THE WRITINGS OF AMERICAN WOMEN ; Introduction ; Jane Addams: A Function of the Social Settlement ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; AMERICAN IDEALISM AND PERSONALISM ; Introduction ; Borden Parker Bowne: The Failure of Impersonalism ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; AFRICAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY ; Introduction ; Alain Locke: The Ethics of Culture, Values, and Imperatives ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; AMERICAN NATURALISM ; Introduction ; John Herman Randall, Jr.: Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature ; Suggestions for Further Reading