This list was complied by James Campbell, Richard Hart, and John
Ryder. Their pamphlet, "The Writings of John J. McDermott for the years
1958-2001," was presented to the participants of Exploring
the Thought of John J. McDermott, a conference in honor of McDermott's
seventieth birthday at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 12-13 October 2001.
“Feeling as Insight: The Affective Dimension of Social
Diagnosis.” In Hippocrates Revisited, ed.
Roger James Bulger (New York: Medcom Publishers, 1973), pp. 166-180. Reprinted in The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the
American Grain (1976) pp. 150-178.
“Space, Time, and Touch: Philosophical Dimensions of Urban
Consciousness.” Soundings 57.3 (Fall 1974): 253-274. Reprinted in The Culture of Experience: Philosophical Essays in the
American Grain (1976) pp. 205-231. Portions included in “Urban Time” (1985).
“Review of Israel Scheffler, Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to Peirce,
James, Mead and Dewey.” Harvard Educational Review 45.4 (November 1975): 557-561.
The Culture of Experience:
Philosophical Essays in the American Grain. New York: New York University
Press, 1976. xxv + 237 pp.
“Preface,” pp. ix-xv
“Acknowledgments,” pp. xxi-xxii
“Introduction,” pp. 1-20
“To Be Human Is to Humanize: A Radically Empirical Aesthetic,” pp. 21-62
“The Community of Experience and Religious Metaphors,” pp. 63-81
“Deprivation and Celebration: Suggestions for an Aesthetic Ecology,” pp. 82-98
“Life Is in the Transitions: Radical Empiricism and Contemporary Concerns,” pp.
99-117 [Reprinted in
Doctrine and Experience: Essays
in American Philosophy, ed. Vincent G. Potter (New York:
Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 104-120.
“From Cynicism to Amelioration: Strategies for a Cultural Pedagogy,” pp. 118-149
“Feeling as Insight: The Affective Dimension in Social Diagnosis,” pp. 150-178
“Nature Nostalgia and the City: An American Dilemma,” pp. 179-204
“Space, Time, and Touch: Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Consciousness,” pp.
205-231
Reprinted,
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1987. xxiv + 237 pp.
“Preface
(1987),” pp. xv-xvi
Additional Acknowledgments, p. xxii
“A Metaphysics of Relations: James’s Anticipation of
Contemporary Experience.” In The Philosophy of
William James, ed. Walter Robert Corti (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1976), pp.
81-99. [Portions from “Life Is in the Transitions: Radical Empiricism and
Contemporary Concerns,” The Culture of Experience (1976).]
“Introduction.” To Essays
in Radical Empiricism by William James (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976),
pp. xi-xlviii.
“Introduction.” To Essays
in Philosophy by William James (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), pp.
xi-xxxv.
“Foreword.” To Chaos
and Context: A Study in William James by Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Athens: Ohio
University Press, 1978), pp. ix-xiii.
“The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy.” American
Studies International 16.3 (Spring 1978): 5-17. Reprinted in Sources for American Studies, ed. Jefferson B.
Kellogg and Robert H. Walker (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press), pp. 315-330; Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 223-234; Revue Francaise d’Etudes
Americanes 12 (November 1987): 487-504.
“Robert C. Pollock, 1901-1978.” Proceedings and Addresses
of the American Philosophical Association 52.1 (September 1978): 17-18.
“Spires of Influence: The Importance of Emerson for Classical
American Philosophy.” In History, Religion and
Spiritual Democracy: Essays in Honor of Joseph L Blau, ed. Maurice Wohlgelernter et
al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), pp. 181-202.
“Philosophical Prospects for a New World.” In Two Centuries of Philosophy in America, ed. Peter
Caws (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980), pp. 240-249.
“The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama.” In
Faculty Lecture Series (College Station: Texas
A&M University, 1980), pp. 1-28.
“Do Not Bequeath a Shamble: The Children of the Twenty-First
Century.” The American Montessori Society Bulletin 18.3 (1980): 1-10. Reprinted in Across the Curriculum: Thinking Reading, Writing,
ed. Rose Zimbardo and Martin Stevens (New York: Longmans), pp. 406-422; Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 169-179; NAMTA (North American Montessori
Teachers’ Association) Journal 20.3 (Summer 1995): 93-106.
“Transiency and Amelioration: An American Bequest for the New
Millennium.” Rice Studies 66.4 (Fall 1980): 1-14. Reprinted in Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 63-75.
“The Promethean Self and Community in the Philosophy of William
James.” Rice Studies 66.4 (Fall 1980): 87-101. Reprinted in Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 44-58.
“Review of Ludwik Fleck, The
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
5.4 (1980): 339.
“From Cynicism to Amelioration: Strategies for a Cultural
Pedagogy.” In Pragmatism: Its Sources and
Prospects, ed. Robert J. Mulvaney and Philip M. Zeltner (Columbia: University of South
Carolina Press, 1981), pp. 69-96.
“Isolation as Starvation: John Dewey and a Philosophy of the
Handicapped.” In A New Challenge to the
Educational Dream: The Handicapped (Bakersfield: California State College, 1981), pp.
48-66. Reprinted in Cross Currents 33.2 (Summer 1983): 158-170; Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 210-222.
“The Handicapped: Education and Consciousness Raising.” In A New Challenge to the Educational Dream: The
Handicapped (Bakersfield: California State College, 1981), pp. 127-131.
“The Inevitability of Our Own Death: The Celebration of Time as
a Prelude to Disaster.” Texas Humanist 3.7 (April 1981): 15. Reprinted in Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 157-168; American Philosophical Naturalism in the Twentieth Century,
ed. John Ryder (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1994), pp. 488-502.
“Introduction.” To Essays
in Morality and Religion by William James (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982),
pp. xi-xxviii.
“The University: The Nectar Is in the Journey.” Fortnightly
12.17 (27 August 1982): 9-11. Reprinted in “I
Am Honored to Be Here Today...” Commencement Speeches by Notable Personalities,
ed. Donald Grunewald (New York: Oceana, 1985), pp. 159-166.
“America: The Loneliness of the Quest.” Teacher’s
College Record 85.2 (Winter 1983): 275-290. Reprinted in Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 76-91.
“The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy after
Ten Years.” SAAP Newsletter #34 (28 March 1983), PP.
"A Novel Opportunity." Guest Editorial. The [Bryan-College
Station] Eagle (6 June 1983).
"Do Not Bequeath a Shamble." Guest Editorial. The
[Bryan-College Station] Eagle (13 June 1983).
"On Personscape." Guest Editorial. The [Bryan-College
Station] Eagle (20 June 1983).
"On the Unexamined Life." Guest Editorial. The
[Bryan-College Station] Eagle (27 June 1983).
“Cultural Literacy: Time for a New Curriculum.” In The Humanities in Pre-Collegiate Education, Part II
of the Eighty-third Yearbook of the National
Society for the Study of Education, ed. Benjamin Ladner (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 39-56.
“Introduction.” To Maria
Montessori: Her Life and Work by E. Mortimer Standing (New York: New American Library,
1984), pp. xi-xvi.
“Glass Without Feet: Dimensions of Urban Aesthetics.” Texas
Humanist 6.3 (January-February 1984): 5-11. Reprinted in Philosophy, Technology and Human Affairs, ed. Larry
Hickman (College Station, Texas: Ibis Press, 1985), pp. 325-336; Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History and
Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 196-209.
“Review of Jacques Barzun, A
Stroll with William James.” New
England Quarterly 57.1 (March 1984): 126-131.
“Personscape.” Humanities (a publication of the Illinois
Humanities Council) 6.2 (Summer 1984): 7-9.
“Experiential Nutrition in the Life of the Child: The
Obfuscation of Adult Assumptions.” Texas Humanist 7.1 (September-October 1984):
11-13.
“Classical American Philosophy: A Reflective Bequest to the
Twenty-First Century.” Journal of Philosophy 81.11 (November 1984): 663-675.
Reprinted in Streams of Experience: Reflections on
the History and Philosophy of American Culture (1986), pp. 92-106.
A Cultural Introduction to Philosophy:
From Antiquity to Descartes. Ed. John McDermott. New York:
Alfred Knopf, 1985. xxiii + 839 pp.
“Preface,” pp. xiii-xiv
Editorial Notes on the Text, p. xv
Acknowledgments, pp. xvi-xvii
“Introduction,” pp. 1-17
Headnotes (passim)
“Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of the Community: The Danger of
the Detached Individual.” In American
Philosophy, ed. Marcus G. Singer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp.
153-176.
“Urban Time.” In Philosophy,
Technology and Human Affairs, ed. Larry Hickman (College Station, Texas: Ibis Press,
1985), pp. 114-116.
“The Stethoscope as Talisman: Medical Technology and
Loneliness” (Excerpt from a lecture and an interview) Technology and Freedom, The Proceedings of a New
Liberal Arts Symposium (29-30 March 1985), vol. 4, ed. John Phillip Brockway
(Davidson, N.C.: Davidson-Sloan New Liberal Arts Program, 1987), pp. 24-33. Also published
in Alberta Association of Registered Nurses Newsletter 42.2 (February 1986): 21-24.
“Introduction.” To “Symposium on Rorty’s
Consequences of Pragmatism.” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21.1
(Winter 1985): 1-7.
“Adults and Children: The Lock on the Gate.” Constructive
Triangle (Published by the American Montessori Society) 12.4 (Fall 1985): 6-9, 13.
“Presence, The Transco Tower.” Texas Journal 8.1
(Fall-Winter 1985): 18-20, 52.
Streams of Experience: Reflections on
the History and Philosophy of American Culture. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1986. xxiv + 266 pp.
“Preface,” pp. xv-xviii
Acknowledgements, pp. xix-xxi
Editorial Notes on the Text, pp. xxiii
“Some Philosophical Foundations,” pp. 1-2
“The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama,” pp. 3-28
“Spires of Influence: The Importance of Emerson for Classical American
Philosophy,” pp. 29-43
“The Promethean Self and Community in the Philosophy of William James,” pp.
44-58
“The American Odyssey and Its Bequest as Champions of Surprise,” pp. 59-61
“Transiency and Amelioration: An American Bequest for the New Millennium,” pp.
63-75
“America: The Loneliness of the Quest,” pp. 76-91
“Classical American Philosophy: A Reflective Bequest to the Twenty-First
Century,” pp. 92-106
“A Relational World: The Significance of the Thought of William James and John Dewey
for Global Culture,” pp.
107-126. Portions reprinted in 1988.
“The Pragmatic Upshot,” pp. 127-128
“The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary,” pp. 129-140
“Experience Grows by Its Edges: A Phenomenology of Relations in an American
Philosophical Vein,” pp.
141-156 [Also published in 1987]
“The Inevitability of Our Own Death: The Celebration of Time as a Prelude to
Disaster,” pp. 157-168
“Do Not Bequeath a Shamble: The Children of the Twenty-First Century –
Innocent Hostage to Mindless
Oppression or Children as Messengers to the World,” pp. 169-179
“Cultural Literacy: A Time for a New Curriculum,” pp. 180-195
“Glass without Feet: Dimensions of Urban Aesthetics,” pp. 196-209
“Isolation as Starvation: John Dewey and a Philosophy of the Handicapped,” pp.
210-222
“The Renascence of Classical American Philosophy,” pp. 223-234
Reprinted, Islamabad, Pakistan: National Book Foundation, 1989.
“Pragmatic Sensibility: The Morality of Experience.” In New Directions in Ethics: The Challenge of Applied
Ethics, ed. Joseph P. DeMarco and Richard M. Fox (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1986), pp. 113-134.
“From Prairie Schooner to Skyscraper.” In High and Low in American Culture, ed. Charlotte
Kretzoi (Budapest: L. Eotvos Lorand University Press, 1986), pp. 167-180.
“Technology and the City: Scrapping for Urban Human Space.”
In Technology: Its Role and Image in Architecture,
Proceedings of the Rowlett Lecture Symposium (College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1986), pp. 6-13.
“Afterword.” In Texas
Country: The Changing Rural Scene, ed. Glen E. Lich and Dona B. Reeves-Marquardt
(College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986), pp. 243-246.
“Review of Robert J. O’Connell, William James on the Courage to Believe.”
International Philosophical Quarterly 26.2 (June 1986): 189-191.
“Introduction to William James.” In Classical American Philosophy, ed. John J. Stuhr
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 93-107. Reprinted in Pragmatism and
Classical American Philosophy, ed. John J. Stuhr (New York: Oxford University Press,
2000), pp. 140-151.
“Introduction.” To John
Dewey: The Later Works, vol. 11 (1935-1937), ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1987), pp. xi-xxxii.
“Experience Grows by Its Edges: A Phenomenology of Relations in
an American Philosophical Vein.” In Pragmatism
Considers Phenomenology, ed. Robert S. Corrington, Carl Hausman and Thomas M. Seebohm
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987), pp. 165-185. Also published in Streams of
Experience (1986), pp. 141-156
“What is, is; what is not, ain’t.” [Letter] Chronicle
of Higher Education (18 February 1987): 39.
“Dialogue-Letter on Urban Aesthetics.” Texas Observer (14
August 1987): 6.
“Review of John Clendenning, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce.” New
England Quarterly 60.3 (September 1987): 486-492.
“Review of Sandra B. Rosenthal, Speculative Pragmatism.” Review of Metaphysics
41.2 (December 1987): 406-408.
“The Gamble for Excellence: John Dewey’s Pedagogy of
Experience.” In Values and Value Theory in
Twentieth-Century America: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Flower, ed. Murray G. Murphey
and Ivar Berg (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), pp. 101-121.
“A Relational World: The Significance of William James for
Twentieth Century Culture.” In Proceedings of
the Seventeenth World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 4: Philosophy and Culture, ed. Venant Cauchy.
(Montreal: Editions Montmorency, 1988), pp. 797-804. Reprinted in part from Streams of
Experience (1986).
“The Teaching of Philosophy – Historically.” American
Philosophical Association Newsletters on Feminism Law, Medicine, Teaching 88.1 (November
1988): 55-60. Reprinted in The Socratic Tradition:
Essays on Teaching Philosophy, ed. Tziporah Kasachkoff (Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1998), pp. 169-180.
“[Annotated Bibliography in American] Philosophy.” In Handbook for the Study of the United States, ed.
William Bate and Perry Frank (Washington, DC: United States Information Agency, 1989), pp.
107-110.
“The Pragmatists.” In Reading Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century,
ed. George F. McLean (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989), pp. 245-263.
“Regulatory and Other Public Policy Issues.” With William
A. Hyman, Vincent M. Brannigan, George T. Willingmyre, and Norman F. Estrin. IEEE:
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 8.3 (September 1989): 33-40.
“The Hidden Life of Technological Artifacts.” In Lifeworld and Technology, ed. Timothy Casey and
Lester Embree (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1991), pp. 289-301.
“The Importance of a Cultural Pedagogy.” National Faculty
of Humanities Arts and Sciences Forum (Winter 1991): 607. Also published in Thinking: The
Journal of Philosophy for Children 9.3 (1991): 2-4.
“Why Bother: Is Life Worth Living?” Journal of Philosophy
88.11 (November 1991): 667-683. Reprinted with additions in Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture, ed.
John J. Stuhr (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 273-283.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 1, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992), pp. xiii-xv.
“Roots and Edges.” Introduction to Frontiers in American Philosophy, vol. 1, ed.
Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 1992), pp. xiii-xx.
“Preface.” To C. I.
Lewis and the Social Theory of Conceptualistic Pragmatism by E. Paul Colella (San
Francisco: Edwin Mellen Research University Press, 1992), pp. xi-xv.
“The Importance of a Cultural Pedagogy.” In Thinking Children and Education, ed. Matthew Lipman
(Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1993), pp. 405-407.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 2, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993), pp. xiii-xv.
“Foreword.” To The
Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane by Patrick K. Dooley (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1993), pp. ix-xii.
“A Sometime Companion.” (Commentary on the aesthetics of
George Santayana) Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society 11 (1993):
11-14.
“Pragmatism.” In Encyclopedia
of Time, ed. Samuel L. Macey (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 482-483.
“III-at-Ease: The Natural Travail of Ontological
Disconnectedness.” (Seventh Patrick Romanell Lecture) Proceedings and Addresses of
the American Philosophical Association 67.6 (June 1994): 7-28.
“The Confrontation between Royce and Howison.” Transactions
of the Charles S. Peirce Society 30.4 (Fall 1994): 779-790.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 3, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994), pp. xv-xvii.
“Introduction.” To The
Philosophy of Loyalty by Josiah Royce (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995),
pp. vii-xxi.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 4, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995), pp. xv-xvii.
“All We Seem to Get Is Life: Implicitness, the Practical as
Ontological.” Southwest Philosophical Review Supplement 2 (March 1995): 17-26.
“Ralph Waldo Emerson.” In Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 221-222.
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Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995), pp. 385-387.
“Specious Present.” In Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 757.
“R. W. Sleeper.” Proceedings and Addresses of the American
Philosophical Association 69.2 (November 1995): 114-115.
“Nancy Rambusch.” Montessori Life 7.1 (Winter 1995): 33-34.
“John Dewey.” Encyclopedia
of Philosophy Supplement, ed. Donald M. Borchert (New York: Macmillan Reference USA,
1996), pp. 273-274.
“William James.” Encyclopedia
of Philosophy Supplement, ed. Donald M. Borchert (New York: Macmillan Reference USA,
1996), pp. 273-274
“E. Darnell Rucker.” SAAP Newsletter no. 75 (October 1996):
4-5.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 5, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997), pp. xvii-xx.
“Introduction.” To William
and Henry James: Selected Letters, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997), pp. vii-xxviii. Abridged as
“‘Dear Harry . . . Dear Wm’: The Letters of the Jameses” in Humanities
18.4 (July-August 1997): 18-20, 51-52.
“Foreword.” To “Symposium on Susanne K. Langer.”
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33.1 (Winter 1997): 131-132.
“Royall O’Brien.” Montessori Life 9.4 (Fall 1997): 13.
“Threadbare Crepe: Reflections on the American Strand.”
South Central Review 14.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 3-13.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 6, eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M.
Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998), pp. xvii-xx.
“‘Turning’ Backward: The Erosion of Moral
Sensibility.” United States Air Force Academy Alice McDermott Memorial Lecture in
Applied Ethics, vol. 8 (1998): 1-15.
“Trumping Cynicism with Imagination.” Discussion with
Michael Malone. A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium, #104. Video
Tape produced by KTEH-TV of San Jose, Cal., and JMT Productions of Los Angeles, 27
minutes. Transcript published in A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millennium,
eds. Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald, and David Rothenberg (Albany: State University
of New York Press, 2000), pp. 60-75.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 7,
eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 1999), pp. xvii-xx.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 8,
eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 2000), pp. xix-xxii.
“Iced in -- in Houston Intercontinental.” Poem. St. Francis
College Review 1.2 (Spring 2000): 22.
“Deadlines.” St. Francis College Review 1.2 (Spring 2000):
23.
“Nibbling.” St. Francis College Review 1.2 (Spring 2000):
24-26.
“Foreword.” To The
Correspondence of William James, vol. 9,
eds. Ignas K. Skrupskelis and Elizabeth M. Berkeley (Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 2001), pp. xvii-xx.
“2001 Herbert W. Schneider Award Citation: Bruce Wilshire.”
SAAP Newsletter #89 (June 2001): 20-21.