Richard J. Bernstein and the Pragmatist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy: Rekindling Pragmatism’s Fire

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-31
Prelude to a Critical Conversation with Fellow Pragmatists....Pages 32-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Hegel and the Classical Pragmatists: Prolegomenon to a Future Discussion....Pages 39-54
The Inferences That Never Were: Peirce, Perception, and Bernstein’s The Pragmatic Turn....Pages 55-70
Peirce’s Theory of Truth and Fallibilism....Pages 71-77
Bernstein’s Deployment of Jamesian Democratic Pluralism: The Pragmatic Turn and the Future of Philosophy....Pages 78-97
The Turn within the Pragmatic Turn: Recovering Bernstein’s Democratic Dewey....Pages 98-111
Dewey as a Radical Democrat and a Liberal Democrat: Considerations on Bernstein on Dewey....Pages 112-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Democratic Community Participation: Bernstein between Dewey and an Achieved Deeply Democratic Future....Pages 131-147
Ideals after the “Pragmatic Turn”....Pages 148-162
Abstract Objectivity: Richard J. Bernstein’s Critique of Hilary Putnam....Pages 163-175
Pragmatism’s Constructive Project....Pages 176-189
Truth, Objectivity, and Experience after the Pragmatic Turn: Bernstein on Habermas’s “Kantian Pragmatism”....Pages 190-209
Now What? Richard J. Bernstein and Philosophy after Rorty....Pages 210-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-234