(H/B) PRAGMATISM, OLD AND NEW

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Morris R. Cohen once described pragmatism as "a philosophy for people who cannot think"; and Bertrand Russell feared that pragmatism would lead philosophy into "cosmic impiety." Nothing could be further from the truth. Pragmatism was one of the most fruitful philosophical movements of the late nineteenth century, and has continued to be a significant influence on some of the major figures in philosophy - F. P. Ramsey, W. V. Quine, Sidney Hook, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, and many others.
Today some even speak of a remarkable renaissance of pragmatism. Very often, though, what they have in mind is not the rich heritage of the classical pragmatist tradition, but a radical self-styled neo-pragmatism that has of late transmuted the reformist aspirations of classical pragmatism into a kind of revolutionary anti-intellectualism - a radical neo-pragmatism that seems to confirm Russell's worst fears.
Asking what we can learn from the older pragmatist tradition, and what we can salvage from the intellectual shipwreck of the new, Susan Haack, with the assistance of Robert Lane, has put together a wide-ranging anthology that tells the story of the evolution of pragmatism from its origins in C. S. Peirce's hopes of making philosophy more scientific and William James's of "unstiffening our theories," to the radical literary-political neo-pragmatism recently popularized by Richard Rorty. Opening with a history of pragmatism from its inception to the present day, and closing with Haack's famous "interview" with Peirce and Rorty, the book presents a broad and diverse selection of pragmatist writings - classical and contemporary, reformist and revolutionary - on logic, metaphysics, theory of inquiry, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and moral, social, and political philosophy. (from the publisher)

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Preface
Editorial Notes
Introduction: Pragmatism, Old and New
Susan Haack
1. Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
Charles Sanders Peirce
2. The Fixation of Belief
Charles Sanders Peirce
3. How to Make Our Ideas Clear
Charles Sanders Peirce
4. Pragmatism and Pragmaticism
Charles Sanders Peirce
5. The Backward State of Metaphysics
Charles Sanders Peirce
6. The Categories
Charles Sanders Peirce
7. On the Strengthened Liar
Charles Sanders Peirce
8. On Logic Machines
Charles Sanders Peirce
9. On Triadic Logic
Charles Sanders Peirce
10. The Will to Believe
William James
11. The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life
William James
12. The Present Dilemma in Philosophy
William James
13. What Pragmatism Means
William James
14. Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
William James
15. School Conditions and the Training of Thought
John Dewey
16. Truth and Consequences
John Dewey
17. Philosophy and Democracy
John Dewey
18. The Quest for Certainty
John Dewey
19. The Construction of Good
John Dewey
20. Art as Experience
John Dewey
21. Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry
John Dewey
22. Mind, Self, and Society
George Herbert Mead
23. The Social Self
George Herbert Mead
24. The Making of Truth
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
25. Belief, Truth, and Inference
Frank Plumpton Ramsey
26. A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
Clarence Irving Lewis
27. Naturalism and First Principles
Sidney Hook
28. The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism
Morton G. White
29. Natural Kinds
Willard van Orman Quine
30. Words, Works, Worlds
Nelson Goodman
31. Is There Still Anything to Say about Reality and Truth?
Hilary Putnam
32. Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism
Richard Rorty
33. Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
Richard Rorty
Epilogue: "We Pragmatists . . .": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation
Susan Haack
Glossary
Index