H. Standish Thayer

Current Position: Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, City College, City University of New York

Degrees: A.B. Bard College, 1945; M.A. Columbia University, 1947; Ph.D. Columbia University, 1949

Curriculum Vitae

Bibliography

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. H. Standish Thayer
4 Salisbury Manor
Apartment 4-B
South Nyack, NY 10960

• A.B. Bard College, 1945
• M.A. Columbia University, 1947
• Ph.D. Columbia University, 1949

Academic Positions

• Instructor, Bard College, 1947
• Instructor, Columbia University, 1949-54
• Assistant Professor, Barnard College, 1954-61
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, 1954-61
• Visiting Associate Professor, Columbia University, 1962-63
• Visiting Professor, New York School of Psychiatry, 1959-65
• Assistant Professor, City College, 1961-65
• Associate Professor, City College of CUNY, 1965-68
• Professor, City College of CUNY, 1968-

Academic Responsibilities

• Member of Executive Committee (and Chairman, 1969-70), The Conference on Methods In Science and Philosophy, 1950-
• Chairman, Department of Philosophy, City College, 1965-68
• Member of Doctoral Faculty and Executive Committee in Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1965-
• Acting Chairman, Department of Philosophy, City College 1984-85; Spring 1987

• Teaching Fellowship Award, Bard College, 1947
• Wendell T. Bush Fellowship in Philosophy, Columbia University. First recipient, 1947; renewed, 1948
• Humanities Research Council Award, Columbia University, 1961
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1970
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1974-75
• Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1974-75
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1982, 1983
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1982-83
• Honoree. A Salute to Scholars, CUNY, June 10, 1982

• Editorial Consultant: Journal of the History of Philosophy; Journal of Critical Analysis, 1973-75; Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 1976-
• Member of Advisory Committee for the Edition of Works of William James — American Council of Learned Societies, 1973-
• Vice President, The John Dewey Foundation, 1973-78
• Chairman: Program on American Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Meeting of the American Philosophy Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1974.
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Philosophical Monographs, Philadelphia, PA., 1975
• Member of Organizing Committee, The Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, 1975-77
• Secretary, New York Philosophy Club, 1975
• Member of Board of Advisors, The Cousteau Society, 1975-
• Member of Advisory Board, Peirce Editions Project, Indiana-Purdue University, 1976-
• Advisor, National Humanities Center 1976-
• Chairman: Session on John Dewey, The Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, New York City, October 7, 1976.
• Reviewer: National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation
• Chairman: Session on Pragmatism. Annual Meeting of Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Seattle, Washington, March 2, 1984.
• Advisory Board for Dewey Correspondence. The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University, 1990-
• Advisory Committee for the Correspondence of William James. ACLS and University Press of Virginia, 1990-

• Mind Association
• Association for Symbolic Logic
• American PhilosophicalAssociation
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

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Books Authored and Edited

Ethics, Science, and Democracy: The Philosophy of Abraham Edel. Edited by Irving Horowitz and H. S. Thayer. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987. viii + 318 pp.

Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism, 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981. xix + 616 pp.

A Bill of Rights for Future Generations. With Dr. Gabriel Nahas and Dr. Allen Farmsworth. The Cousteau Society, Inc. Proceedings of The Myrin Institute, no. 34. New York : The Myrin Institute, Inc. for Adult Education, 1979. 33 pp.

Meaning and Action: A Study of American Pragmatism. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1973. xv + 288 pp. Abridged edition with new Introduction, of the 1968 edition.

Pragmatism: The Classic Writings. Edited with commentary by H. S. Thayer. New York: The New American Library, 1970. Reprinted, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982. viii + 383 pp.

Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. xxx + 572 pp.

Blaise Pascal. Pensées: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects. Revised translation, introduction, and notes by H. S. Thayer. New York: Washington Square Press, 1965. xxv + 326 pp.

Isaac Newton. Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings. Edited by H. S. Thayer. New York: Hafner, 1953. Reprinted as Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings (New York: Hafner, 1974). xvi + 207 pp.

John Dewey: His Contribution to the American Tradition. Edited by H. S. Thayer and Irwin Edman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955. 322 pp.

The Logic of Pragmatism: An Examination of John Dewey's Logic. Dissertation, Columbia University, advisor Ernest Nagel, 1949. New York: Humanities Press, 1952. Reprinted, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. vii + 222 pp.

Chapters and Articles in Books

"Plato's Style: Temporal, Dramatic and Semantic Levels in the Dialogues." In Plato's Dialogues: The Dialogical Approach, edited by Richard E. Hart and Victorino Tejera (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edward Mellen Press, 1997), pp. 87-120.

"Truth, Representation and the Real." In From Time and to Consciousness: Studies in the Metaphysics of Charles S. Peirce, edited by Edward C. Moore and Richard S. Robin (Providence, R.I.: Berg, 1994), pp. 31-44.

"Meaning and Dramatic Interpretation." In Plato's Dialogues: New Studies and Interpretations, edited by Gerald Press (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), pp. 47-59.

"Objects of Knowledge." In Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture, edited by John J. Stuhr (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 187-201.

"Necessity and Truth in Dewey's Logical Theory." In Frontiers in American Philosophy, Vol. 1, edited by Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992), pp. 213-220.

"A New View of Aristotle." In Ethics, Science, and Democracy: The Philosophy of Abraham Edel, edited by Irving Horowitz and H. S. Thayer (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1987), pp. 189-216.

"John Dewey." In Key Thinkers Past and Present, edited by Jessica Kuper (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987), pp. 43-45.

"William James." In Key Thinkers Past and Present, edited by Jessica Kuper (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987), pp. 101-102.

"John Dewey." In American Philosophy, edited by Marcus Singer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 69-89.

"William James." Article in The Social Science Encyclopedia, edited by Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985), pp. ??

"Peirce on Truth." In Pragmatism and Purpose, edited by L.W. Summer, John G. Slater, and Fred Wilson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), pp. 121-132.

"Pragmatism: A Reinterpretation of the Origins and Consequences." In Pragmatism: Its Sources and Prospects, edited by Robert Mulvaney and Philip Zeltner (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981), pp. 1-20.

"Peirce on Truth." In Two Centuries of Philosophy, edited by Peter Caws (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980), pp. 63-76.

"John Dewey." Article in Academic American Encyclopedia (Princeton, N.J.: Arete Publishing Company, Inc. 1979), pp. ??

"Introduction." With V. T. Thayer. To John Dewey: The Middle Works, Vol. 6 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978), pp. ix-xxviii.

"Introduction." To The Meaning of Truth in The Works of William James (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. xi-xxvi.

"Introduction." To Pragmatism in The Works of William James (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975), pp. xi-xxxviii.

"Pragmatism." Article in Encyclopedia Brittannica (1974), pp. 940-944.

"Historical Patterns, Empiricism, and Some Reflections on Ockham and Berkeley." In Naturalism and Historical Understanding: Essays on the Philosophy of John Herman Randall, Jr., edited by John P. Anton (New York: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 69-82.

"Pragmatism." Article in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards (New York: Macmillan and Free Press, 1966), vol. 6, pp. 430-436.

"Plato: The Theory and Language of Function." In Plato's Republic: Interpretation and Criticism, edited by Alexander Sesonske (Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1966), pp. 21-39.

Articles in The Harper Encyclopedia of Science, 4 vols., edited by James R. Newman (New York: Harper and Rowe, 1965). "Berkeley, George," vol. 1, p. 145; "Empiricism," vol. 2, p. 391; "Hume, David," vol. 2, p. 567; "Kant, Immanuel," vol. 2, p. 632; "Locke, John," vol. 2, p. 676; "Logical Empiricism," vol. 2, p. 684; "Positivism," vol. 3, p. 948.

"Pragmatism." In A Critical History of Western Philosophy, edited by D. J. O'Connor (Glencoe: The Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1964), pp. 437-462.

"Pragmatism." In Philosophy A to Z, edited by James Gutmann (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1963), pp. 254-265.

Articles

"Comments on Susan Haack's Evidence and Inquiry." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 615-619.

"Peirce and Truth: Some Reflections." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 32 (1996): 1-10.

"Comments" on papers by Gerald Myers and Charlene Haddock Seigfried, given at the American Philosophical Association Symposium "Centennial of William James's Principles of Psychology." Boston., Massachusetts, December 28, 1990. Journal of Philosophy 87 (11 November 1990): 585-601.

"Dewey and the Theory of Knowledge." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 26 (1990): 443-458.

"The Myth of Er." History of Philosophy Quarterly 5 (1988): 369-384.

"The Philosophy of History and the History of Philosophy: Reflections on the Thought of John Herman Randall, Jr." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 28 (1987): 69-89.

"James's Theory of Truth: A Reply." Topoi 2 (1983): 223-226.

"The Right to Believe: William James's Reinterpretation of the Function of Religious Belief." Kenyon Review 5 (1983): 89-105.

"History and Philosophy." In "Philosophy: An Assessment," edited by Peter Caws. Social Research 47 (1980): 672-685.

"Meaning, Mind and Lewis: A Reply to Bennett." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 15 (1979): 234-242.

"Aristotle on the Meaning of Science." Philosophical Inquiry 1 (1979): 87-104.

"The Revolution in Empiricism: Peirce on Scientific Knowledge and Truth." Southern Journal of Philosophy 17 (1979): 531-545.

"On William James on Truth." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 13 (1977): 3-19.

"Plato on the Morality of Imagination." Review of Metaphysics 30 (1977): 594-618.

"Reply to Criticisms." In "Perspectives on the History of Pragmatism: A Symposium of H. S. Thayer's Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 11 (1975): 258-287.

"Aristotle on Nature: A Study of the Relativity of Concepts and Procedures of Analysis." Review of Metaphysics 28 (1975): 725-744.

"Plato's Quarrel With Poetry: Simonides." Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975): 3-25.

"The Good is Off Interred." The New York Times (Sunday October 27, 1974). Op-Ed Page, p. 17.

"Models of Moral Concepts and Plato's Republic." Journal of the History of Philosophy 7 (1969): 247-262.

"Plato: The Theory and Language of Function." Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1964): 303-318.

"Ultimate Commitments in Morals and the Pragmatic Imperative." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 14 (1953): 184-195.

"Critical Notes on Dewey's Theory of Propositions." Journal of Philosophy 48 (1951): 607-613.

"Two Theories of Truth: The Relation Between the Theories of John Dewey and Bertrand Russell." Journal of Philosophy 44 (1947): 516-527.

Reviews

T. L. S. Sprigge, James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (1995): 205-218.

Ralph Sleeper, The Necessity of Pragmatism. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 5 (1987): 331-333.

Daniel J. Wilson, Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Quest for Intelligibility. International Studies in Philosophy 17 (1984): 116-118.

Karl Otto Apel, Charles S. Peirce: From Pragmatism to Pragmaticism. Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (1983): 412-414.

Robert Almeder, The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. Canadian Philosophical Reviews 10 (1981): 56-59.

John E. Smith, Purpose and Thought: The Meaning of Pragmatism. Mind 89 (1980): 620-622.

W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 4. American Historical Review 84 (1979): 125-126.

Israel Scheffler, Critical Study: Four Pragmatists. Philosophia 8 (1978): 461-469.

R. N. Berki, The History of Political Thought. American Historical Review 83 (1978): 685.

A. F. Nelson, Inquiry and Reality: A Discourse in Pragmatic Synthesis. Review of Metaphysics 31 (1978): 682-684.

Nicholas Rescher, The Primacy of Practice. Philosophia 6 (1977): 3-19.

Douglas Greenlee, Peirce's Concept of Sign. Journal of the History of Philosophy 14 (1976): 115-117.

W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek. Philosophy, Vol. 3. American Historical Review 75 (1970): ??

Kurt von Fritz, Platon in Sizillen. American Historical Review, 75 (1970): ??

A. J. Ayer, The Origins of Pragmatism. Philosophical Quarterly 20 (1970): ??

John Wild, The Radical Empiricism of William James. Journal of Philosophy 67 (1970): ??

John Dewey, Psychology, Vol. 2 of John Dewey: The Early Works, 1882-1898. Religious Humanism 3 (1969): ??

Edward C. Moore and Richard S. Robin, eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce. Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1967): ??

Stuart Hampshire, The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers, and Isaiah Berlin, The Age of Enlightenment: The 18th Century Philosophers. Journal of Philosophy 55 (1958): ??

H. G. Alexander, ed. The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence. Science (1957): ??

Reuben Abel, The Pragmatic Humanism of F. C. S. Schiller. Journal of Philosophy 53 (1956): ??

George, Bernanos, The Last Essays of George Bernanos. Journal of Philosophy 53 (1956): ??

Sidney Ratner, ed., Vision and Action: Essays in Honor of Horace M. Kallen on His 70th Birthday. Journal of Philosophy 51 (1954): ??

K. J. Spaulding, The Philosophy of Shakespeare. Journal of Philosophy 51 (1954): ??

Lewis Mumford, The Condition of Man. Western Humanities Review 6 (1952): ??

G. Burniston Brown, Science: Its Method and Its Philosophy. Journal of Philosophy 48 (1951): ??

Papers Presented

"William James's Defense of Freedom of Thought and Expression in 'The Will to Believe'." The Fourth Conference of the International Society for the History of Ideas, Venice, Italy, September 28-October 3, 1975.

"Pragmatism: A Reinterpretation of the Origins and Consequences." Symposium on Pragmatism: Its Sources and Prospects. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., October 31, 1975.

"The Philosophy of Pragmatism." The Great Scholar Symposia, Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, May 11, 1976.

"Peirce on Truth." Session on Charles S. Peirce, The Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, New York City, October 8, 1976.

"The Revolution in Empiricism: Peirce on Scientific Knowledge and Truth." Session on Charles S. Peirce, World Congress of Philosophy, Dusseldorf, West Germany, August 27, 1978.

"American Philosophy and Literature." American Studies Association, Philadelphia, November 5, 1983.

"Pragmatism and Psychology: John Dewey." Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Joint Session, Seventy Fifth Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2, 1983.

"John Dewey." The Royal Institute of Philosophy Program on American Philosophy, London, England, November 2, 1984.

"Pragmatism." University of California at Santa Cruz, February 29, 1984.

"Pragmatism and Psychology: John Dewey." Philosophy Colloquium, Fordham University, November 22, 1985.

"The Philosophy of John Herman Randall, Jr." Plenary Session, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Lexington, Kentucky, February 28, 1986.

Guest Lecturer in Master Teacher Senior Seminar In Humanities Program (NEH). Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, March 17-21, 1986. Open lecture, "William James and Pragmatism: The Quest for Relevance" on March 20, 1986.

"Truth, Representation and the Real." The Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, September 7, 1989.

"Dewey and the Theory of Knowledge." Symposium on Dewey and Epistemology Today. American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December 28, 1989.