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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.

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• Preface(p. 9)
• Editorial Notes(p. 13)
• Introduction: Pragmatism, Old and New(p. 15)
• 1 Some Consequences of Four Incapacities(p. 69)
• 2 The Fixation of Belief(p. 107)
• 3 How to Make Our Ideas Clear(p. 127)
• 4 Pragmatism and Pragmaticism(p. 151)
• 5 The Backward State of Metaphysics(p. 169)
• 6 The Categories(p. 177)
• 7 On the Strengthened Liar(p. 209)
• 8 On Logic Machines(p. 213)
• 9 On Triadic Logic(p. 217)
• 10 The Will to Believe(p. 221)
• 11 The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life(p. 247)
• 12 The Present Dilemma in Philosophy(p. 273)
• 13 What Pragmatism Means(p. 289)
• 14 Pragmatism's Conception of Truth(p. 309)
• 15 School Conditions and the Training of Thought(p. 331)
• 16 Truth and Consequences(p. 341)
• 17 Philosophy and Democracy(p. 363)
• 18 The Quest for Certainty(p. 379)
• 19 The Construction of Good(p. 395)
• 20 Art as Experience(p. 423)
• 21 Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry(p. 443)
• 22 Mind, Self, and Society(p. 465)
• 23 The Social Self(p. 477)
• 24 The Making of Truth(p. 487)
• 25 Belief, Truth, and Inference(p. 511)
• 26 A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori(p. 517)
• 27 Naturalism and First Principles(p. 529)
• 28 The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism(p. 559)
• 29 Natural Kinds(p. 575)
• 30 Words, Works, Worlds(p. 599)
• 31 Is There Still Anything to Say about Reality and Truth?(p. 621)
• 32 Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism(p. 635)
• 33 Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism(p. 657)
• Epilogue: "We Pragmatists...": Peirce and Rorty in Conversation(p. 675)
• Glossary(p. 697)
• Index(p. 707)

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Susan Haack (Coral Gables, FL) is Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy, and professor of law at the University of Miami. She is the author of numerous highly acclaimed books including Defending Science--Within Reason; Philosophy of Logics; Evidence and Inquiry; Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic: Beyond the Formalism; and Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays. Robert Lane (Carrolton, GA) is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He has published on American philosophy, the history of logic, and ethics.