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pragmatists

classical recent
Charles Peirce
William James
F.C.S. Schiller
John Dewey
George Mead
Jane Addams
James Tufts
Edward Ames
Alain Locke
Charles Morris
C. I. Lewis
W. V. Quine
Sidney Hook
Hilary Putnam
Richard Rorty
Nicholas Rescher
Larry Laudan
Joseph Margolis
Paul Kurtz
Mark Johnson
Susan Haack
Cornel West


organizations

Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy

Institute for American Thought

Charles S. Peirce Society

Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway

Grupo de Estudios Peirceanos

Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism

William James Society

William James Cybrary

John Dewey Society

Center for Dewey Studies

The Mead Project

Centro de Estudos em Filosofia Americana

more organizations...

 

events

11-13 March 2010, Charlotte, North Carolina: the SAAP 2010 Conference
Interested in more events? Check the Peirce Society calendar and the SAAP calendar.

 

new books

Bergman, Mats. Peirce's philosophy of communication: the rhetorical underpinnings of the theory of signs. London and New York: Continuum, 2009.

Hickman, Larry A., and Stefan Neubert, ed. John Dewey between pragmatism and constructivism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.

Huang, Yong, ed. Rorty, Pragmatism, and Confucianism: with responses by Richard Rorty. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

James, Eric. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to William James on Psychology and Metaphysics. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.

Neville, Robert C. Realism in religion: a pragmatist's perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

Slater, Michael R. William James on ethics and faith. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

New books...       Looking for more books? Browse 1990-1999 and 2000-2009.

 

editorial

The Eclipse of Pragmatism?

There has been much talk of pragmatism's "eclipse" during analytic philosophy's greatest dominance from 1950 to 1990. The myth must be corrected: pragmatism was never eclipsed. While pragmatism was a prominent competitor with rival neo-idealisms and new realisms during the first two decades of the 20th century, pragmatism had few representatives across the top twenty philosophy departments. Already quite marginalized in the 1920s and 1930s, the handful of pragmatist professors such as Dewey at Columbia and Mead at Chicago encouraged many of their students to go into psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, education, and economics. Many of the best new minds favorable towards pragmatism.... read more

 

points of interest

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was the most prominent "neo-pragmatist" for three decades, teaching at Princeton, Virginia, and Stanford. His best known books include Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature and Philosophy and Social Hope.

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Contemporary Pragmatism

Contemporary Pragmatism

Contemporary Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary, international journal for discussing pragmatism, and applying pragmatism to current topics.

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