Preface: Historical Orientation, Pressing Problems
Part I: Ethics & Experience in Early American Pragmatism
1. Charles Sanders Peirce: The Roots of Pragmatist Ethics
2. William James: Radical Empiricist, Moral Philosopher
3. John Dewey: Champion of Inquiry
4. Clarence Irving Lewis: The Bridge to Today’s Pragmatism
Part II: Pragmatism & Problems in Contemporary Metaethics
5. A Pragmatist View of Truth in Moral Inquiry
6. A Pragmatist View of Principles in Moral Inquiry
7. Making Metaethics Matter
Biography
Diana B. Heney is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. She works in the history of American pragmatism, metaethics, and bioethics. Recent publications include ‘Reality as Necessary Friction’ in The Journal of Philosophy and ‘Practitioner Narrative Competence in Mental Health Care’ in Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology.
"Heney's application of Peircian ideas to the contemporary scene in meta-ethics is very valuable...Heney shows how pragmatism can offer compelling versions of both a cognitivist affirmation of the truth aptness of moral judgments and a generalist support for the role of principles in moral deliberation."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"This is an important book both for its technical discussions and for its practical relevance in a time when the very concept of ‘truth’ seems to have disappeared." – Jerome A. Stone in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy
