The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism offers 44 cutting-edge chapters—written specifically for this volume by an international team of distinguished researchers—that assess the past, present, and future of pragmatism. Going beyond the exposition of canonical texts and figures, the collection presents pragmatism as a living philosophical idiom that continues to devise promising theses in contemporary debates. The chapters are organized into four major parts:
Pragmatism’s history and figures Pragmatism and plural traditions Pragmatism’s reach Pragmatism’s relevance
Each chapter provides up-to-date research tools for philosophers, students, and others who wish to locate pragmatist options in their contemporary research fields. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that the vitality of pragmatism lies in its ability to build upon, and transcend, the ideas and arguments of its founders. When seen in its full diversity, pragmatism emerges as one of the most successful and influential philosophical movements in Western philosophy.
"Introduction 1. The Metaphysical Club 2. C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatism 3. William James 4. John Dewey 5. Jane Addams 6. Alain Locke’s Critical Pragmatism on Race and Culture 7. Sidney Hook 8. C. I. Lewis Between Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism 9. Quine and American Pragmatism 10. Wilfrid Sellars and Pragmatism 11. Richard Rorty’s Therapeutic Anti-Authoritarian Narrative 12. Hilary Putnam 13. Cornel West and Prophetic Pragmatism 14. Susan Haack and Worldly, Realist Pragmatism 15. Nicholas Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism 16. Robert Brandom 17. Pragmatism’s Family Feud 18. One Hundred Years of Pragmatism at Harvard 19. Pragmatism in Britain and Italy in the Early 20th Century 20. Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy 21. Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy 22. Prospects for ""Big-Tent"" Pragmatic Phenomenology 23. Pragmatism and Its Prospects 24. Pragmatism and Logic 25. Pragmatism and Metaphysics 26. Peirce, James, and Dewey as Philosophers of Science 27. Pragmatism and Language 28. Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Mind 29. Pragmatism and Cognitive Science 30. Knowledge-Practicalism 31. Pragmatism and Religion 32. Pragmatism and the Moral Life 33. Artworld Practice, Aesthetic Properties, Pragmatist Strategies 34. Pragmatism and Political Philosophy 35. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy 36. Pragmatism and Philosophical Methods 37. Pragmatism and Expressivism 38. Pragmatism and Naturalism 39. Pragmatist Theories of Truth 40. Pragmatism and Insurrectionist Philosophy 41. Latin American Philosophy, U.S. Latinx Philosophy, and Anglo-American Pragmatism 42. Pragmatism and Race 43. Meaning and Inquiry in Feminist Pragmatist Narrative 44. Pragmatism and Environmental Philosophy"
Scott Aikin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in pragmatism, epistemology, argumentation theory, and ancient philosophy. He is the author of Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2010) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014). Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on political philosophy, with an emphasis on democracy, equality, and justice. His most recent book is Sustaining Democracy (2021).
Reviews for The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism
"""The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism hits a sweet spot. Well organized and approachable, it offers the novice a fine introduction to this vital tradition. Innovative in its conception and comprehensive in its coverage, it contains much that will inform and challenge even the most knowledgeable specialists."" Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh ""This book is not only of critical importance to those who deliver lectures about the historiography of the traditions of philosophy at colloquia. It should also be bought by lecturers who are interested in the reach and relevance of pragmatism to philosophy today."" - Jason Wakefield, University of Cambridge"
