Introducing Pragmatism: A Tool for Rethinking Philosophy

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Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Peirce and the Principle of Pragmatism
	2.1 The Limits of Thought
	2.2 The Purpose of Thought
	2.3 The Fixation of Belief
	2.4 The Fixation of Meaning
	2.5 Applications of the Pragmatic Maxim
	2.6 The Pragmatic Conception of Truth
3 William James: Pragmatism and the Will to Believe
	3.1 Birth of the Term “Pragmatism”
	3.2 The Will to Believe
	3.3 The Principle of Pragmatism
	3.4 Applications of the Principle
	3.5 Rationalism, Empiricism, Pragmatism
	3.6 Truth as Agreement With Reality
	3.7 Taking Truth Further
4 The Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S. Schiller
	4.1 Broadening the Will to Believe
	4.2 Pragmatism
	4.3 Humanism
	4.4 The Making of Truth
	4.5 Three Pragmatic Views on Truth
	4.6 The Making of Reality
5 European Reception: France and Italy
	5.1 French Philosophy of Action
	5.2 The Leonardo Movement
	5.3 The Magical Pragmatism of Giovanni Papini
	5.4 Giovanni Vailati’s Logical Pragmatism
	5.5 The Prezzolini–Calderoni Debate
6 Peirce Revisited: The Normative Turn
	6.1 Peirce’s Later Years
	6.2 Response to James’s Will to Believe
	6.3 The Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism
	6.4 In Search of a Proof
	6.5 Phenomenology and the Normative Sciences
	6.6 Pragmatism Versus Pragmaticism
	6.7 Logic and Semiotics
	6.8 Pragmatism as the Logic of Abduction
7 Josiah Royce and George Herbert Mead
	7.1 Pure Pragmatism and the Absolute Knower
	7.2 Toward a Community of Interpretation
	7.3 The Social Pragmatism of George Herbert Mead
	7.4 The Philosophy of the Act
	7.5 The Social Nature of the Act and the Emergence of the Self
	7.6 Mind, Language, and Pragmatism
	7.7 Perspective Realism
8 Pragmatism and the Problems of Life: Dewey, Addams, and Bourne
	8.1 Dewey’s Experimental Logic
	8.2 A Theory of Knowledge
	8.3 Whether All Judgments Are Practical
	8.4 Pragmatism and the Problems of Life
	8.5 Truth and Warranted Assertibility
	8.6 Jane Addams: A Pragmatist in Action
	8.7 Randolph Bourne: Pragmatism and Romantic Anarchy
9 Conceptual Pragmatism: From Lewis to Davidson
	9.1 The Given, the A Priori, and Interpretation
	9.2 Pragmatism, Truth, and Valuation
	9.3 Logical Positivism
	9.4 Pragmatism and Pragmatics
	9.5 Verificationism
	9.6 Quine’s More Thorough Pragmatism
	9.7 On Worlds and World Making
	9.8 Davidson and a Third Dogma
10 The European Reception Revisited
	10.1 From Russell, to Ramsey, to Wittgenstein
	10.2 The Pragmatism of Frank Ramsey
	10.3 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Meaning as Use
	10.4 Pragmatism and Phenomenology
	10.5 Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology
	10.6 Critical Theory Rejects Pragmatism
	10.7 Jürgen Habermas: Critical Theory Turns to Pragmatism
11 The Neopragmatism of Richard Rorty
	11.1 The Idol of the Mirror
	11.2 The Impact of Sellars and Quine
	11.3 From Correspondence to Conversation
	11.4 Against Truth
	11.5 Solidarity, Ethnocentricity, and Irony
12 Hilary Putnam: Philosophy With a Human Face
	12.1 The Collapse of the Fact–Value Distinction
	12.2 Whether Our Norms Are All Subjective
	12.3 Pragmatism and Internal Realism
	12.4 Natural Realism
13 Susan Haack: Reclaiming Pragmatism
	13.1 The Empirical Justification of Beliefs
	13.2 The Analogy of the Crossword Puzzle
	13.3 Standards of Inquiry
	13.4 Justification and Truth
	13.5 Against Vulgar Pragmatism
14 Legal Pragmatism
	14.1 Green’s Pragmatic Reading of Causation
	14.2 Oliver Wendell Holmes on Legal Liability
	14.3 Legal Pragmatism in the Twentieth Century
	14.4 Dewey on Judicial Practice
	14.5 The Legal Pragmatism of Richard Posner
	14.6 Haack on Evidence and Inquiry in the Law
15 Prophetic Pragmatism and Feminist Inspirations
	15.1 Feminist Pragmatism
	15.2 The Social Self and the Male–Female Dichotomy
	15.3 Alain Locke on the New Negro
	15.4 Cornel West’s Prophetic Pragmatism
16 Pragmatism and the End(s) of Philosophy
Annotated Reading Guide
References and Select Bibliography
Index