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).

“This is a strong collection showing the variation in the different lines of thought stemming from the Pragmatists.” (Metapsychology, May 2009) "The essays, though assuming some acquaintance with the problems and history of philosophy, are clearly written and use a minimum of jargon. A brief but excellent introduction . . . and a good set of subject and name indexes complete the scholarly apparatus. Recommended."(Choice)

• List of Contributors viiiPreface xNotes on Abbreviations xiIntroduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective 1Joseph MargolisPart I MAJOR FIGURES 111 Charles Sanders Peirce 13Vincent M. Colapietro2 William James 30Ellen Kappy Suckiel3 F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism 44John R. Shook4 John Dewey 54Philip W. Jackson5 George Herbert Mead 67Gary A. Cook6 Jane Addams 79Marilyn Fischer7 Alain L. Locke 87Leonard Harris8 C. I. Lewis 94Murray G. Murphey9 W. V. Quine 101Roger F. Gibson, Jr.10 Hilary Putnam 108Harvey J. Cormier11 Jürgen Habermas 120Joseph M. Heath12 Richard Rorty 127Kai NielsenPart II TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY 13913 Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism 141Susan Haack14 Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism 154Douglas R. Anderson15 James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism 166Timothy L. S. Sprigge16 Hegel and Realism 177Kenneth R. Westphal17 Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism 184Thomas M. Alexander18 Expressivism and Mead’s Social Self 193Mitchell Aboulafia19 Marxism and Critical Theory 202Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.20 Philosophical Hermeneutics 209David Vessey21 Language, Mind, and Naturalism in Analytic Philosophy 215Bjørn T. Ramberg22 Feminism 232Shannon W. Sullivan23 Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism 239Joseph Margolis24 Experience as Freedom 249John J. McDermottPart III CULTURE AND NATURE 25525 Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism 257Richard Rorty26 Intelligence and Ethics 267Hilary Putnam27 Democracy and Value Inquiry 278Ruth Anna Putnam28 Liberal Democracy 290Robert B. Westbrook29 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach 301Judith M. Green30 Philosophy as Education 317Jim Garrison31 Creativity and Society 323Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen32 Religious Empiricism and Naturalism 336Nancy K. Frankenberry33 Aesthetics 352Richard Shusterman34 Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry 361Jay Schulkin35 Cognitive Science 369Mark Johnson36 Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method 378Isaac Levi37 Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism 386Nicholas Rescher38 Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism 398Cheryl J. MisakName Index 410Subject Index 420

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).

“This is a strong collection showing the variation in the different lines of thought stemming from the Pragmatists.” (Metapsychology, May 2009) "The essays, though assuming some acquaintance with the problems and history of philosophy, are clearly written and use a minimum of jargon. A brief but excellent introduction . . . and a good set of subject and name indexes complete the scholarly apparatus. Recommended."(Choice)

• List of Contributors viiiPreface xNotes on Abbreviations xiIntroduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective 1Joseph MargolisPart I MAJOR FIGURES 111 Charles Sanders Peirce 13Vincent M. Colapietro2 William James 30Ellen Kappy Suckiel3 F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism 44John R. Shook4 John Dewey 54Philip W. Jackson5 George Herbert Mead 67Gary A. Cook6 Jane Addams 79Marilyn Fischer7 Alain L. Locke 87Leonard Harris8 C. I. Lewis 94Murray G. Murphey9 W. V. Quine 101Roger F. Gibson, Jr.10 Hilary Putnam 108Harvey J. Cormier11 Jürgen Habermas 120Joseph M. Heath12 Richard Rorty 127Kai NielsenPart II TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY 13913 Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism 141Susan Haack14 Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism 154Douglas R. Anderson15 James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism 166Timothy L. S. Sprigge16 Hegel and Realism 177Kenneth R. Westphal17 Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism 184Thomas M. Alexander18 Expressivism and Mead’s Social Self 193Mitchell Aboulafia19 Marxism and Critical Theory 202Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.20 Philosophical Hermeneutics 209David Vessey21 Language, Mind, and Naturalism in Analytic Philosophy 215Bjørn T. Ramberg22 Feminism 232Shannon W. Sullivan23 Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism 239Joseph Margolis24 Experience as Freedom 249John J. McDermottPart III CULTURE AND NATURE 25525 Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism 257Richard Rorty26 Intelligence and Ethics 267Hilary Putnam27 Democracy and Value Inquiry 278Ruth Anna Putnam28 Liberal Democracy 290Robert B. Westbrook29 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach 301Judith M. Green30 Philosophy as Education 317Jim Garrison31 Creativity and Society 323Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen32 Religious Empiricism and Naturalism 336Nancy K. Frankenberry33 Aesthetics 352Richard Shusterman34 Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry 361Jay Schulkin35 Cognitive Science 369Mark Johnson36 Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method 378Isaac Levi37 Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism 386Nicholas Rescher38 Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism 398Cheryl J. MisakName Index 410Subject Index 420

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).

“This is a strong collection showing the variation in the different lines of thought stemming from the Pragmatists.” (Metapsychology, May 2009) "The essays, though assuming some acquaintance with the problems and history of philosophy, are clearly written and use a minimum of jargon. A brief but excellent introduction . . . and a good set of subject and name indexes complete the scholarly apparatus. Recommended."(Choice)

• List of Contributors viiiPreface xNotes on Abbreviations xiIntroduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective 1Joseph MargolisPart I MAJOR FIGURES 111 Charles Sanders Peirce 13Vincent M. Colapietro2 William James 30Ellen Kappy Suckiel3 F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism 44John R. Shook4 John Dewey 54Philip W. Jackson5 George Herbert Mead 67Gary A. Cook6 Jane Addams 79Marilyn Fischer7 Alain L. Locke 87Leonard Harris8 C. I. Lewis 94Murray G. Murphey9 W. V. Quine 101Roger F. Gibson, Jr.10 Hilary Putnam 108Harvey J. Cormier11 Jürgen Habermas 120Joseph M. Heath12 Richard Rorty 127Kai NielsenPart II TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY 13913 Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism 141Susan Haack14 Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism 154Douglas R. Anderson15 James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism 166Timothy L. S. Sprigge16 Hegel and Realism 177Kenneth R. Westphal17 Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism 184Thomas M. Alexander18 Expressivism and Mead’s Social Self 193Mitchell Aboulafia19 Marxism and Critical Theory 202Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.20 Philosophical Hermeneutics 209David Vessey21 Language, Mind, and Naturalism in Analytic Philosophy 215Bjørn T. Ramberg22 Feminism 232Shannon W. Sullivan23 Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism 239Joseph Margolis24 Experience as Freedom 249John J. McDermottPart III CULTURE AND NATURE 25525 Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism 257Richard Rorty26 Intelligence and Ethics 267Hilary Putnam27 Democracy and Value Inquiry 278Ruth Anna Putnam28 Liberal Democracy 290Robert B. Westbrook29 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach 301Judith M. Green30 Philosophy as Education 317Jim Garrison31 Creativity and Society 323Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen32 Religious Empiricism and Naturalism 336Nancy K. Frankenberry33 Aesthetics 352Richard Shusterman34 Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry 361Jay Schulkin35 Cognitive Science 369Mark Johnson36 Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method 378Isaac Levi37 Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism 386Nicholas Rescher38 Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism 398Cheryl J. MisakName Index 410Subject Index 420