Frank X. Ryan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University and the author of Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Brian E. Butler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville and the author of The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and Interpretation. James A. Good is Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Business, and Economics Division at Lone Star College-North Harris. He is the coeditor (with John R. Shook) of John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit, with the 1897 Lecture on Hegel.

"Highly recommended." — CHOICE"The Real Metaphysical Club includes some very important thinkers that don't always make it into anthologies of American philosophy. The period is also important. 1870 to 1885 is critical to the development of classical American philosophy. It precedes it and sets its direction. The book accomplishes its goal of giving the reader a sense of the period by arranging the works in a very interesting way. The readings and introduction are very readable and would be helpful to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as general readers interested in American Thought." — James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University

• A Note on the Texts A Narrative History of the Metaphysical ClubJohn R. ShookPart I: Science and Pragmatism Science and Pragmatism: An IntroductionFrank X. Ryan Chauncey WrightCharles Peirce’s Berkeley Review. The Nation 13 (30 November 1871): 355–56Evolution by Natural Selection. Review of Darwin and Mivart. North American Review 115 (July 1872): 1–31Cause and Effect. Dated 1874The Evolution of Self- Consciousness. North American Review 116 (April 1873): 245–310Notes on Nihilism. Dated 1874Charles Sanders PeirceFraser’s The Works of George Berkeley. North American Review 113 (October 1871): 449–72Mr. Peirce and the Realists. The Nation 13 (14 December 1871): 386The Fixation of Belief. Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877): 1–15How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878): 286–302 William JamesTaine’s On Intelligence. The Nation 15.374 (29 August 1872): 139–41Against Nihilism. Dated to 1873 or 1874Maudsley’s Responsibility in Mental Disease. Atlantic Monthly 34.203 (September 1874): 364–65Tait and Stewart’s The Unseen Universe. The Nation 20.517 (27 May 1875): 366–67Wundt’s Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. North American Review 121 (July 1875): 195–201Lewes’s Problems of Life and Mind. Atlantic Monthly 36 (September 1875): 361–63Chauncey Wright. The Nation 21 (23 September 1875): 194Remarks on Spencer’s Definition of Mind as Correspondence. Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12.1 (January 1878): 1–18The Sentiment of Rationality. Mind o.s. 4 (July 1879): 317–46 G. Stanley HallPhilosophy in the United States. Mind o.s. 4.3 (January 1879): 89–105Part II: Law and Pragmatism Law and Pragmatism: An IntroductionBrian Butler Nicholas St. John GreenProximate and Remote Cause. American Law Review 4.2 (January 1870): 201, 203–204, 210–16Insanity in Criminal Law. American Law Review 5.4 (July 1871): 704–709The Power of the Will over Conduct. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 1 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), 390The Maxim that a Man is Presumed to Intend the Natural Consequences of His Acts. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 2 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875), 244–46Reasonable Doubt. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 2 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875), 437 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Codes, and the Arrangement of Law. American Law Review 5 (October 1870): 1–13Notice of Pollock on Austin’s Definition of Law. American Law Review 6 (July 1872): 723–25Primitive Notions in Modern Law. American Law Review 10 (April 1876): 422–39The Common Law (Boston: Little, Brown, 1881), chap. 1, 1–5, 34–38 Joseph Bangs WarnerHolmes’s Common Law. American Law Review 2 (May 1881): 331–38 Part III: Varieties of Idealism Varieties Of Idealism: An IntroductionJames A. Good John FiskeCosmic Theism. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1874), vol. 2, 411–31 Charles Carroll EverettThe Known and the Unknowable in Religion. The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine 3 (May 1875): 445–56 James Elliot CabotSome Considerations on the Notion of Space. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (July 1878): 225–36 Thomas DavidsonIndividuality. Dated to 1878 (from 22 October 1878). In Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, ed. Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1880), 334–38 Borden Parker BowneThe Cosmic Philosophy. Review of Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, by John Fiske. Methodist Quarterly Review 58 (October 1876): 655–78Realism, Idealism, and Phenomenalism. Metaphysics: A Study in First Principles (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882), 450–87 Francis Ellingwood AbbotThe God of Science. Scientific Theism (Boston: Little, Brown, 1885), 202–18 George Holmes HowisonIs Modern Science Pantheistic? Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19 (October 1885): 363–84 Index of NamesIndex of Subjects

Frank X. Ryan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University and the author of Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Brian E. Butler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville and the author of The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and Interpretation. James A. Good is Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Business, and Economics Division at Lone Star College-North Harris. He is the coeditor (with John R. Shook) of John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit, with the 1897 Lecture on Hegel.

"Highly recommended." — CHOICE"The Real Metaphysical Club includes some very important thinkers that don't always make it into anthologies of American philosophy. The period is also important. 1870 to 1885 is critical to the development of classical American philosophy. It precedes it and sets its direction. The book accomplishes its goal of giving the reader a sense of the period by arranging the works in a very interesting way. The readings and introduction are very readable and would be helpful to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as general readers interested in American Thought." — James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University

• A Note on the Texts A Narrative History of the Metaphysical ClubJohn R. ShookPart I: Science and Pragmatism Science and Pragmatism: An IntroductionFrank X. Ryan Chauncey WrightCharles Peirce’s Berkeley Review. The Nation 13 (30 November 1871): 355–56Evolution by Natural Selection. Review of Darwin and Mivart. North American Review 115 (July 1872): 1–31Cause and Effect. Dated 1874The Evolution of Self- Consciousness. North American Review 116 (April 1873): 245–310Notes on Nihilism. Dated 1874Charles Sanders PeirceFraser’s The Works of George Berkeley. North American Review 113 (October 1871): 449–72Mr. Peirce and the Realists. The Nation 13 (14 December 1871): 386The Fixation of Belief. Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877): 1–15How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878): 286–302 William JamesTaine’s On Intelligence. The Nation 15.374 (29 August 1872): 139–41Against Nihilism. Dated to 1873 or 1874Maudsley’s Responsibility in Mental Disease. Atlantic Monthly 34.203 (September 1874): 364–65Tait and Stewart’s The Unseen Universe. The Nation 20.517 (27 May 1875): 366–67Wundt’s Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. North American Review 121 (July 1875): 195–201Lewes’s Problems of Life and Mind. Atlantic Monthly 36 (September 1875): 361–63Chauncey Wright. The Nation 21 (23 September 1875): 194Remarks on Spencer’s Definition of Mind as Correspondence. Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12.1 (January 1878): 1–18The Sentiment of Rationality. Mind o.s. 4 (July 1879): 317–46 G. Stanley HallPhilosophy in the United States. Mind o.s. 4.3 (January 1879): 89–105Part II: Law and Pragmatism Law and Pragmatism: An IntroductionBrian Butler Nicholas St. John GreenProximate and Remote Cause. American Law Review 4.2 (January 1870): 201, 203–204, 210–16Insanity in Criminal Law. American Law Review 5.4 (July 1871): 704–709The Power of the Will over Conduct. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 1 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1874), 390The Maxim that a Man is Presumed to Intend the Natural Consequences of His Acts. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 2 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875), 244–46Reasonable Doubt. Criminal Law Reports, Volume 2 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1875), 437 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Codes, and the Arrangement of Law. American Law Review 5 (October 1870): 1–13Notice of Pollock on Austin’s Definition of Law. American Law Review 6 (July 1872): 723–25Primitive Notions in Modern Law. American Law Review 10 (April 1876): 422–39The Common Law (Boston: Little, Brown, 1881), chap. 1, 1–5, 34–38 Joseph Bangs WarnerHolmes’s Common Law. American Law Review 2 (May 1881): 331–38 Part III: Varieties of Idealism Varieties Of Idealism: An IntroductionJames A. Good John FiskeCosmic Theism. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1874), vol. 2, 411–31 Charles Carroll EverettThe Known and the Unknowable in Religion. The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine 3 (May 1875): 445–56 James Elliot CabotSome Considerations on the Notion of Space. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 12 (July 1878): 225–36 Thomas DavidsonIndividuality. Dated to 1878 (from 22 October 1878). In Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, ed. Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1880), 334–38 Borden Parker BowneThe Cosmic Philosophy. Review of Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, by John Fiske. Methodist Quarterly Review 58 (October 1876): 655–78Realism, Idealism, and Phenomenalism. Metaphysics: A Study in First Principles (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882), 450–87 Francis Ellingwood AbbotThe God of Science. Scientific Theism (Boston: Little, Brown, 1885), 202–18 George Holmes HowisonIs Modern Science Pantheistic? Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19 (October 1885): 363–84 Index of NamesIndex of Subjects