Contemporary Pragmatism
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Mitchell Aboulafia
Director of Liberal Arts
The Juilliard School, New York City

Judith Green
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Fordham University, New York City

Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr.
Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

John R. Shook
Center for Inquiry Transnational, Buffalo, New York
Director, Pragmatism Archive at CFI


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Susana de Castro Amaral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Richard Bernstein, New School University, USA
James Bohman, Saint Louis University, USA
Randall Dipert, University at Buffalo, USA
Pascal Engel, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne, France
Jose Miguel Esteban, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico
Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College, USA
Nancy Fraser, New School University, USA
Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech University, USA
Eddie Glaude, Princeton University, USA
Russell Goodman, University of New Mexico, USA
Susan Haack, University of Miami, USA
Jürgen Habermas, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
Leoni Henning, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil
Hans Joas, University of Erfurt, Germany; University of Chicago, USA
Robert Kane, University of Texas, USA
Paul Kurtz, Center for Inquiry Transnational, USA
John Lachs, Vanderbilt University, USA
Alvaro Marquez-Fernandez, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela
Joseph Margolis, Temple University, USA
James Marshall, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Glenn McGee, Albany Medical Center, USA
Floyd Merrell, Purdue University, USA
Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto, Canada
Lucius Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University, USA
Michael Peters, University of Auckland, Austr.; University of Glasgow, Scotland
Huw Price, University of Sydney, Australia
Hilary Putnam, Harvard University, USA
Bjørn Ramberg, University of Oslo, Norway
Mike Sandbothe, Aalborg University, Denmark
Dmitri Shalin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University, USA
Claudine Tiercelin, L'Université de Paris-XII, France
Celal Türer, Erciyes University, Turkey
Bas van Fraassen, Princeton University, USA
Marcus Vinícius da Cunha, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Cornell West, Princeton University, USA

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Special Upcoming Issue on Paul Kurtz's
Pragmatic Naturalism and Secular Humanism

 


Current Issue
Volume 4, Number 2
December 2007

 

Symposium on Robert Westbrook’s Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth

Brendan Hogan
Guest Editor Introduction

Eric MacGilvray
Pragmatism and the Epistemic Defense of Democracy

Brendan Hogan
Democracy, Epistemology, Inquiry: Comments on Westbrook’s Democratic Hope               

Robert Talisse
Two Democratic Hopes

Robert B. Westbrook
Replies to Symposium Participants

Articles

Judith M. Green
On the Passing of Richard Rorty and the Future of American Philosophy

Colin Koopman
Rorty’s Moral Philosophy for Liberal Democratic Culture

Tom Spector
Dewey and Dancy and the Moral Authority of Rules
 

Elizabeth Baeten
Embedded and Embodied Moral Life

Richard Werner
Pragmatism for Pacifists   

Book Reviews

Douglas McDermid
Review of Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4

Gregory Fernando Pappas
Review of John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis, eds.,
A Companion to Pragmatism                           


 


Volume 1, Number 1
June 2004

Articles
Susan Haack, Pragmatism Old and New
Nicholas Rescher, Pragmatism and Practical Rationality
Floyd Merrell, Neither “True” nor “False” nor Meaningless: Meditation on the Pragmatics of Knowing Becoming
Elizabeth F. Cooke, Rorty on Conversation as an Achievement of Hope
Thomas Keith, Pragmatism, Race, and Inclusiveness
Linda Pacifici and Jim Garrison, Imagination, Emotion and Inquiry: The Teachable Moment
Tom Spector, Pragmatism for Architects

Essay Reviews
Brian Butler, Law’s Image of Pragmatism – Another Legal Fiction. Review of Michal Alberstein, Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution, and Denis J. Brion, Pragmatism and Judicial Choice
Kenneth L. Ketner, Our Addictions. Review of Bruce Wilshire, Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

Book Reviews
D. Stephen Long, Review of Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition
Nancy Frankenberry, Review of Sheila Davaney, Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century
Sami Pihlström, Review of Ulf Zackariasson, Forces by Which We Live: Religion and Religious Experience from the Perspective of a Pragmatic Philosophical Anthropology
John Capps, Review of Larry Hickman, Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture


Volume 1, Number 2
December 2004

Articles
Bjørn Ramberg, Naturalizing Idealizations: Pragmatism and the Interpretivist Strategy
Vincent Colapietro, Doing — and Undoing — the Done Thing: Dewey and Bourdieu on Habituation, Agency, and Transformation
Melvin L. Rogers, Rorty’s Straussianism; Or, Irony Against Democracy

Symposium on Pragmatism and Radical Orthodoxy
Mary Doak,
A Pragmatism Without Plurality? John Milbank’s ‘Pragmatic’ New Christendom
Brad Elliott Stone, Making Religious Practices Intelligible: A Prophetic Pragmatic Interpretation of Radical Orthodoxy
Jacob Lynn Goodson, Theology After Epistemology: Milbank between Rorty and Taylor on Truth

Review Essay
David Seiple,
Pragmatist Representationalism and the Aesthetics of Moral Intelligence. Review of Steven Fesmire, John Dewey and Moral Imagination: Pragmatism in Ethics

Book Reviews
David Boersema, Review of Paul Custodio Bube and Jeffrey Geller, eds., Conversations with Pragmatism: A Multi-Disciplinary Study
Guy Axtell, Review of Stuart Rosenbaum, ed., Pragmatism and Religion: Classical Sources and Original Essays
Marc A. Joseph, Review of Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
Tom Spector, Review of Joan Ockman, ed., The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking About "Things in the Making”


Volume 2, Number 1
June 2005

Symposium on Richard Rorty
Kai Nielsen, Pragmatism as Atheoreticism: Richard Rorty
Chandra Kumar, Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A Pragmatist View from the Left
Chase B. Wrenn, Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Truth
Christopher Voparil, On the Idea of Philosophy as Bildungsroman: Rorty and his Critics

Articles
Eugene Halton, Peircean Animism and the End of Civilization
David Boersema, Eco on Names and Reference
Sarah M. McGough, Pragmatism and Poststructuralism: Cultivating Political Agency in Schools

Book Reviews
Mary Magada-Ward, Review of Sharyn Clough, Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies
Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Review of Hugh P. McDonald, John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy


Volume 2, Number 2
December 2005

Symposium on Nicholas Rescher
Richard M. Gale, The Cognitive Pragmatism of Nicholas Rescher
Larry A. Hickman, What Sort of Pragmatist is Nicholas Rescher?
Michele Marsonet, Rescher’s Evolutionary Epistemology
Cheryl Misak, Rescher and Objective Pragmatism
Alexander R. Pruss, Ultimate Explanations
Nicholas Rescher, Replies to Symposium Participants

The Fun of American Philosophy
Mary Magada-Ward, Helping Thought and Keeping it Pragmatical, or, Why Experience Plays Practical Jokes
Jessica Wahman, “We Are All Mad Here”: Santayana and the Significance of Humor
Cynthia Gayman, Not so Funny: A Deweyan Response

Articles
Hugh P. McDonald, The Problem with “Brain”
Mitchell Aboulafia, From Folk Psychology to Deontology: Nancy Fraser on Redistribution and Recognition
Frank X. Ryan, Fathoming the Bottomless Lake of Consciousness: The Phenomenological Pragmatism of Robert E. Innis

Review Essay
Yusuf Oz,
The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction

Book Reviews
Anthony Graybosch, Review of Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 2nd edn
Colin Koopman, Review of John J. Stuhr, Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy


Volume 3, Number 1
June 2006

Articles
Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism’s New Options
Guy Axtell, The Present Dilemma in Philosophy
Sam Page, Unconditional Truth in Practice
Gregory L. Reece, Language Games, Forms of Life and Conceptual Schemes: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Religious Belief
Lee A. McBride III, Collectivistic Individualism: Dewey and MacIntyre
Ronald A. Kuipers, Stout’s Democracy without Secularism: But is it a Tradition?
Maughn Gregory, Pragmatist Value Inquiry
James O. Pawelski, Teaching Pragmatism Pragmatically: A Promising Approach to the Cultivation of Character
Keiichi Takaya, Why Do Schools Fail? Dewey on Imagination
Joel W. Krueger, James on Experience and the Extended Mind

Book Reviews
Colin Koopman, Review of James Livingston, Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History
Colin Koopman, Review of Robert B. Talisse, Democracy After Liberalism: Pragmatism and Deliberative Politics


Volume 3, Number 2
December 2006

Symposium on Hilary Putnam, Ethics without Ontology
Sami Pihlström, Putnam’s Conception of Ontology
Joseph Margolis, Hilary Putnam and the Promise of Pluralism
Mark Timmons, Ethical Objectivity Humanly Speaking: Reflections on Putnam’s Ethics without Ontology
David Copp, The Ontology of Putnam’s Ethics without Ontology
Claudine Tiercelin, Metaphysics without Ontology?
Hilary Putnam, Replies to Commentators

Articles
Scott R. Stroud, Constructing a Deweyan Theory of Moral Cultivation
Hugh G. McDonald, Creative Actualization: A Pluralist Theory of Value
Robert Lane, Synechistic Bioethics: A Peircean View of the Moral Status of Pre-Birth Humans

Book Reviews
David Vessey, Review of Paul Fairfield, Theorizing Praxis: Studies in Hermeneutical Pragmatism
Kevin W. Gray, Review of William Egginton and Mike Sandbothe, eds., The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought


Volume 4, Number 1
June
2007

Special Issue on Cornel West
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., On Cornel West and Pragmatism
Thomas McCarthy, The Natural Order of Things: Social Darwinism and White Supremacy
Eduardo Mendieta, Translating Democracy or Democratic Acts of Translation:  On Cornel West’s Democracy Matters
Jeffrey Stout, A Prophetic Church in a Post-Constantinian Age: The Implicit Theology of Cornel West
Jason A. Springs, The Priority of Democracy to Social Theory
Marc Lombardo, On the Frank Speech of Cornel West’s Prophetic Witness
Paul C. Taylor, Making Niagara a Cataract: Cornel West, Greatness, and the Music of Ideas


Volume 4, Number 2
December 2007