Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology

Elias L. Khalil was Director of the Behavioral Research Council, American Institute for Economic Research. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics, Vassar College, USA.

• Introduction John Dewey, the Transactional View and the Behavioural Sciences Part One: Pragmatism and Postmodernism 1. Five Milestones of Pragmatism Frank X. Ryan 2. John Dewey and the Pragmatic Century Richard Bernstein 3. Putnam and Rorty on their Pramatist Heritage: Re-Reading James and Dewey Sami Pihlström 4. Dewey and/or Rorty Joseph Margolis 5. Avoiding Wrong Turns: A Philippic Against the Lingustification of Pragmatism David L. Hildebrand 6. Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism Larry A. Hickman 7. Toward a Truly Pragmatic Theory of Signs: Reading Peirce's Semeiotic in Light of Dewey's Gloss Vincent Colapietro Part Two: Inquiry, Language and Nature 8. Dewey on Inquiry and Language - After Bentley John E. Smith 9. Dewey, Analytic Epistemology, and Biology Peter H. Hare 10. Pragmatic Naturalism, Knowing the World, and the Issue of Foundations: Beyond the Modernist-Postmodernist Alternative Sandra Rosenthal Part Three: Inquiry and Society 11. John Dewey and the Intersection of Democracy and Law Richard Posner 12. Truth but No Consequences: Why Philosophy Doesn't Matter Stanley Fish 13. The Logical Necessity of Ideologies Tom Burke 14. Pragmatism John J. Stuhr 15. Corrigibilism Without Solidarity Isaac Levi Part Four: Economic Methodology 16. Pragmatism, Knowledge, and Economic Science: Deweyan Pragmatic Philosophy and Contemporary Economic Methodology D. Wade Hands 17. A Deweyan Economic Methodology Alex Viskovatoff 18. Dewey and Economic Reality Michael S. Lawlor 19. The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey's Theory of Inquiry Peter Boettke, Don Lavoie and Virgil Storr 20. After the 'New Economics,' Pragmatist Turn? William Milberg