John R. Shook & Joseph Margolis 
A Companion to Pragmatism 

A Companion to Pragmatism, comprised of 38 newly commissioned essays, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the most vibrant and exciting fields of philosophy today.

* Unique in depth and coverage of classical figures and their philosophies as well as pragmatism as a living force in philosophy.

* Chapters include discussions on philosophers such as John Dewey, Jürgen Habermas and Hilary Putnam.

Table of Content

List of Contributors viii

Preface x

Notes on Abbreviations xi

Introduction: Pragmatism, Retrospective, and Prospective 1

Joseph Margolis

Part I MAJOR FIGURES 11

1 Charles Sanders Peirce 13

Vincent M. Colapietro

2 William James 30

Ellen Kappy Suckiel

3 F. C. S. Schiller and European Pragmatism 44

John R. Shook

4 John Dewey 54

Philip W. Jackson

5 George Herbert Mead 67

Gary A. Cook

6 Jane Addams 79

Marilyn Fischer

7 Alain L. Locke 87

Leonard Harris

8 C. I. Lewis 94

Murray G. Murphey

9 W. V. Quine 101

Roger F. Gibson, Jr.

10 Hilary Putnam 108

Harvey J. Cormier

11 Jürgen Habermas 120

Joseph M. Heath

12 Richard Rorty 127

Kai Nielsen

Part II TRANSFORMING PHILOSOPHY 139

13 Not Cynicism, but Synechism: Lessons from Classical
Pragmatism 141

Susan Haack

14 Peirce and Cartesian Rationalism 154

Douglas R. Anderson

15 James, Empiricism, and Absolute Idealism 166

Timothy L. S. Sprigge

16 Hegel and Realism 177

Kenneth R. Westphal

17 Dewey, Dualism, and Naturalism 184

Thomas M. Alexander

18 Expressivism and Mead’s Social Self 193

Mitchell Aboulafia

19 Marxism and Critical Theory 202

Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.

20 Philosophical Hermeneutics 209

David Vessey

21 Language, Mind, and Naturalism in Analytic Philosophy
215

Bjørn T. Ramberg

22 Feminism 232

Shannon W. Sullivan

23 Pluralism, Relativism, and Historicism 239

Joseph Margolis

24 Experience as Freedom 249

John J. Mc Dermott

Part III CULTURE AND NATURE 255

25 Pragmatism as Anti-authoritarianism 257

Richard Rorty

26 Intelligence and Ethics 267

Hilary Putnam

27 Democracy and Value Inquiry 278

Ruth Anna Putnam

28 Liberal Democracy 290

Robert B. Westbrook

29 Pluralism and Deliberative Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach
301

Judith M. Green

30 Philosophy as Education 317

Jim Garrison

31 Creativity and Society 323

Hans Joas and Erkki Kilpinen

32 Religious Empiricism and Naturalism 336

Nancy K. Frankenberry

33 Aesthetics 352

Richard Shusterman

34 Aesthetic Experience and the Neurobiology of Inquiry
361

Jay Schulkin

35 Cognitive Science 369

Mark Johnson

36 Inquiry, Deliberation, and Method 378

Isaac Levi

37 Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism 386

Nicholas Rescher

38 Scientific Realism, Anti-Realism, and Empiricism 398

Cheryl J. Misak

Name Index 410

Subject Index 420

About the author

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).