Table of Contents
1 Charles S. Peirce’s Critique of Cartesianism
2 The Ethical Consequences of William James’s Pragmatic Pluralism
James’s Political Interventions
James’s Pluralistic Legacy: Horace Kallen and Alain Locke
3 John Dewey’s Vision of Radical Democracy
Beyond Communitarianism and Liberalism
The Role of Conflict in Democratic Politics
Democracy, Social Cooperation, and Education
Dewey’s Contemporary Relevance
Peirce’s Ambivalence toward Hegel
James: Hegel’s “Abominable Habits of Speech”
The Revival of Interest in Hegel
Sellars: “Incipient Meditations Hegeliènnes”
The “Pittsburgh Hegelians”: McDowell and Brandom
5 Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Truth
The Correspondence Theory of Truth?
A Pragmatic Account of Objectivity
Truth and Justification without Regulative Ideals
6 Experience after the Linguistic Turn
Peirce: Three Categorial Aspects of Experience
James: The Varieties of Experience
Dewey: The Darwinian Naturalization of Hegel
Experience and the Linguistic Turn Again
7 Hilary Putnam: The Entanglement of Fact and Value
The Context of Putnam’s Thesis
Objectivity, Moral Realism, and Democratic Openness
8 Jürgen Habermas’s Kantian Pragmatism
The Epistemic Conception of Truth
Neither Contextualism nor Idealism
Moral Constructivism and Epistemological Realism
Why Habermas Rejects Moral Realism
9 Richard Rorty’s Deep Humanism
Rorty’s Early Metaphysical Explorations
Doubts about Analytic Philosophy
Public Liberalism and Private Irony