Pragmatism

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Strange, Surprising, Sure

Accessible and wide-ranging essays on the philosophy of religion.

America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher

Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

Human Landscapes

The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

The Critical Margolis

This critical reader covers Joseph Margolis’s controversial views of mind, truth, science, and reality, along with his revolutionary theories about culture, art, language, personhood, and morality.

Decolonizing American Philosophy

Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy's ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.

John Dewey's Later Logical Theory

A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.

American Aesthetics

Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.

Pragmatism Applied

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

The Real Metaphysical Club

A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.

Janus Democracy

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.

The Limits of Knowledge

Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.

John Dewey's Earlier Logical Theory

Analysis of Dewey's pre-1916 work on logic and its relationship to his better-known 1938 book on the topic.

John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief

Uses the thought of John Dewey to address the ethics of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions.

Modes of Learning

By George Allan
Subjects: Education

A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.

Ethics of Writing

First English translation of Sini’s important work on the influence of writing and the alphabet on Western rationality.

Realism in Religion

A philosophical consideration of key religious issues from a pragmatist’s perspective.

Deweyan Inquiry

Presents John Dewey’s theory of inquiry and applies it to various areas of the primary, middle, and secondary school curricula.

Reconstructing Democracy, Recontextualizing Dewey

Edited by Jim Garrison
Subjects: Philosophy

Leading scholars challenge and reinvigorate the pragmatic method of John Dewey.

The Incompleat Eco-Philosopher

Collected essays present Weston’s pragmatic environmental philosophy, calling for reconstruction and imagination rather than deconstruction and analysis.

Styles of Thought

By David Weissman
Subjects: Philosophy

Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.

The Dynamic Individualism of William James

Explores James’s concept of the individual in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and religion.

The Active Life

A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy

Demonstrates that the divisions between analytic and continental philosophy are being replaced by a transcontinental desire to address common problems in a common idiom.

Dewey Reconfigured

Addresses recent perspectives central to the interpretation and criticism of Dewey’s philosophy.

The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism

This is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.