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The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism
The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers—that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism. Going beyond the exposition of canonical texts and figures, the collection presents pragmatism as a living philosophical idiom that continues to devise promising theses in contemporary debates. The chapters are organized into four major parts:
- Pragmatism’s history and figures
- Pragmatism and plural traditions
- Pragmatism’s reach
- Pragmatism’s relevance
Each chapter provides up-to-date research tools for philosophers, students, and others who wish to locate pragmatist options in their contemporary research fields. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that the vitality of pragmatism lies in its ability to build upon, and transcend, the ideas and arguments of its founders. When seen in its full diversity, pragmatism emerges as one of the most successful and influential philosophical movements in Western philosophy.
Introduction
Scott Aikin and Robert B. Talisse
Part I: Pragmatism’s History and Figures
1. The Metaphysical Club
Cheryl Misak
2. C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatism
Albert Atkin
3. William James
Alexander Klein
4. John Dewey
David L. Hildebrand
5. Jane Addams
Núria Sara Miras Boronat
6. Alain Locke’s Critical Pragmatism on Race and Culture
Corey L. Barnes
7. Sidney Hook
Robert B. Talisse
8. C. I. Lewis between Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism
Peter Olen
9. Quine and American Pragmatism
Yemima Ben-Menahem
10. Wilfrid Sellars and Pragmatism
Willem A. DeVries
11. Richard Rorty’s Therapeutic, Anti-Authoritarian Narrative
Susan Dieleman
12. Hilary Putnam
Maria Baghramian and Matthew Shields
13. Cornel West and Prophetic Pragmatism
Eduardo Mendieta
14. Susan Haack and Worldly, Realist Pragmatism
Robert Lane
15. Nicholas Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism
Michele Marsonet
16. Robert Brandom
Chauncey Maher
Part II: Pragmatism and Plural Traditions
17. Pragmatism’s Family Feud
Henry Jackman
18. One Hundred Years of Pragmatism at Harvard
Douglas McDermid
19. Pragmatism in Britain and Italy in the Early 20th Century
Gabriele Gava and Tullio Viola
20. Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
Henrik Rydenfelt
21. Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy
Paul Giladi
22. Prospects for "Big-Tent" Pragmatic Phenomenology
J. Aaron Simmons
23. Pragmatism and its Prospects
Michael Bacon
Part III: Pragmatism’s Reach
24. Pragmatism and Logic
F. Thomas Burke
25. Pragmatism and Metaphysics
Claudine Tiercelin
26. Peirce, James, and Dewey as Philosophers of Science
Jeff Kasser
27. Pragmatism and Language
David Boersma
28. Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Mind
Aaron Zimmerman
29. Pragmatism and Cognitive Science
Shaun Gallagher
30. Knowledge-Practicalism
Stephen Hetherington
31. Pragmatism and Religion
Sami Pihlström
32. Pragmatism and The Moral Life
Diana B. Heney
33. Artworld Practice, Aesthetic Properties, Pragmatist Strategies
Robert Kraut
34. Pragmatism and Political Philosophy
Matthew Festenstein
35. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy
Scott Aikin
Part IV: Pragmatism’s Relevance
36. Pragmatism and Philosophical Methods
Andrew Howat
37. Pragmatism and Expressivism
David Macarthur
38. Pragmatism and Naturalism
James R. O’Shea
39. Pragmatist Theories of Truth
Cornelis de Waal
40. Pragmatism and Insurrectionist Philosophy
Lee A. McBride III
41. Latin American Philosophy, U.S. Latinx Philosophy, and Anglo-American Pragmatism
Denise Meda Calderon and Andrea J. Pitts
42. Pragmatism and Race
Jacoby Adeshei Carter
43. Meaning and Inquiry in Feminist Pragmatist Narrative
Shannon Dea
44. Pragmatism and Environmental Philosophy
Evelyn Brister
Biography
Scott Aikin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in pragmatism, epistemology, argumentation theory, and ancient philosophy. He is the author of Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2010) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014).
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on political philosophy, with an emphasis on democracy, equality, and justice. His most recent book is Sustaining Democracy (2021).
"The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism hits a sweet spot. Well organized and approachable, it offers the novice a fine introduction to this vital tradition. Innovative in its conception and comprehensive in its coverage, it contains much that will inform and challenge even the most knowledgeable specialists."
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh"This book is not only of critical importance to those who deliver lectures about the historiography of the traditions of philosophy at colloquia. It should also be bought by lecturers who are interested in the reach and relevance of pragmatism to philosophy today." - Jason Wakefield, University of Cambridge
