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ASSOCIATIONS

• Central European Pragmatist Forum
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CONFERENCES

2009:

• Pragmatism and Science, Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, New York, June 19-20
• Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism, Nordic Pragmatism Network, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, May 14-15
• Pragmatism and the Ethics of War, Society for Classical Pragmatism Studies, University of South Florida, March 5-7

2008:

• Transatlantic Reverberations: Prospects of Pragmatic Humanism, University of Lodz, September 27-30

• First Nordic Pragmatism Conference in Science, Religion and Politics, Nordic Pragmatism Network, University of Helsinki, July 2-4

• Truth and the Ethics of Belief, Fourth Meeting on Pragmatism, Phronesis and the University of Murcia, June 2-4

• Pragmatism and Naturalism Workshop, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS), May 7-9

2007:

• Pragmatism: a Living Tradition, NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, University of New Mexico, June 17-July 20

• Pragmatism and Quantum Mechanics, CREA -- École Polytechnique and CNRS, Paris, February 22-23

• Pragmatism and Evolutionary Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, February 16-17

2006:

• The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 28-29

• Agency, Inference, and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy, Third Meeting on Pragmatism, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Granada, April 12-19

2005:

2004:

• Hilary Putnam's Pragmatism, Second Meeting on Pragmatism, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, May 13-14

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

• Pragmatism and Values, Central European Pragmatist Forum, Slovak Academy of Sciences, May 29-June 1

Other Listings:

• Pragmatism Conferences (Pragmatism Cybrary)

COURSES

• University of Colorado, Denver: Pragmatism: Classical American Philosophy (Hildebrand)

• University of Sheffield: Pragmatism (Hookway)

JOURNALS

• Contemporary Pragmatism (or here)
• Journal of Speculative Philosophy

PERSONS

• Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914)
• William James (1842 - 1910)
• John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

• George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

• George Herbert Mead (1863 - 1961)
• F. C. S. Schiller (1864 - 1937)
• Clarence I. Lewis (1883 - 1964)
• Roy Wood Sellars (1883 - 1973)
• Stephen C. Pepper (1889 - 1972)
• Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1993)
• Sidney Hook (1902 - 1989)
• Charles W. Morris (1903 - 1979)
• Nelson Goodman (1906 - 1998)
• W. V. O. Quine (1908 - 2000)
• Wilfrid Sellars (1912 - 1989)
• C. Wright Mills (1916 - 1962)
• Donald Davidson (1917 - 2003)
• Morton White (1917 - )

• Erving Goffman (1922 - 1982)

• Thomas S. Kuhn (1922 - 1996)
• Israel Scheffler (1923 - )

• Joseph Margolis (1924 - )

• Paul Kurtz (1925 - )

• Stanley Cavell (1926 - )
• Hilary Putnam (1926 - )
• Nicholas Rescher (1928 - )

• Isaac Levi (1930 - )

• Ronald Dworkin (1931 - )

• Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007)
• Richard J. Bernstein (1932 - )
• John J. McDermott (1932 - )

• John McDowell (1942 - )

• Stanley Fish (1938 - )

• Richard A. Posner (1939 - )

• Susan Haack (1945 - )

• Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947 - )

• Robert Brandom (1950 - ) (see also Analytic Philosophy)

• Cornel West (1953 - )
• Cheryl Misak (1961 - )
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith ( - )
• David L. Hildebrand ( - )

• Topics:

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      • Henry James (1843 - 1916)
      • John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
      • Percy Lubbock (1879 - 1965)
      • Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1993)
      • Louise Rosenblatt (1904 - 2005)
      • Nelson Goodman (1906 - 1998)
      • Richard Poirier (1925 - )
      • Stanley Cavell (1926 - )
      • Richard Rorty (1931 - 2007)
      • Stanley Fish (1938 - ) (see also Deconstruction and Foucauldian Theory)
      • Walter Benn Michaels (1948 - )
      • Richard Shusterman ( - )

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SOURCES: PRIMARY

• Anthologies:
  • General:
    • Goodman, Russell B., ed.  Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2005.
    • Goodman, Russell B., ed.  Pragmatism: a Contemporary Reader.  London: Routledge, 1995.
    • Haack, Susan, ed.  Pragmatism Old and New: Selected Writings.  Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2006.
    • Menand, Louis, ed.  Pragmatism: a Reader.  New York: Vintage, 1997.
    • Mulvaney, Robert J., and Philip M. Zeltner, eds.  Pragmatism: its Sources and Prospects.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1981.

    • Rorty, Amelie, ed.  Pragmatic Philosophy.  New York: Doubleday, 1966.

    • Stuhr, John, ed.  Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
    • Thayer, H. Standish, ed.  Pragmatism: the Classic Writings.  1970.  Rpt. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982.

  • Topics:

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      • Literature:

        • Mitchell, W. J. T., ed.  Against Theory: Literary Study and the New Pragmatism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

        • Poirier, Richard, and Reuben Brower, eds.  In Defense of Reading: a Reader's Approach to Literary Criticism.  1963.

    • Communication:

    • Education:

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    • Human Being:

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      • Dickstein, Morris, ed.  The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
      • Kautzer, Chad, and Eduardo Mendieta, eds.  Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2009.
• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

    • Debrock, Guy.  Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

    • Hickman, Larry A.  Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.

    • Hildebrand, David L.  "Avoiding Wrong Turns: a Philippic against the Linguistification of Pragmatism."  Dewey, Pragmatism, and Economic Methodology.  Ed. Elias L. Khalil.  London: Routledge, 2004.

    • Stuhr, John.  Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience and Community.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

  • Topics:

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        • Gunn, Giles.  Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
        • Gunn, Giles.  Thinking across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
        • Gunn, Giles.  The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture.  Oxford: OUP, 1987.
        • Hildebrand, David L.  "Pragmatism and Literary Criticism."  REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999.
        • Poirier, Richard.  The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life.  Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1992.
        • Poirier, Richard.  Poetry and Pragmatism.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.
        • Poirier, Richard.  The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections.  New York: Random House, 1987.
        • Poirier, Richard.  World Elsewhere: the Place of Style in American Literature.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1985.
        • Poirier, Richard.  Robert Frost: the Work of Knowing.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1977.
        • Poirier, Richard.  The Comic Sense of Henry James: a Study of the Early Novels.  1960.

    • Communication:

      • Boersema, David.  Pragmatism and Reference.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

      • Craig, Robert T.  "Pragmatism in the Field of Communication Theory."  Communication Theory 17.2 (2007): .

      • Danish, Robert.  Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric.  Columbus: U of South Carolina P, 2007.

    • Education:

    • History:

    • Human Being:

    • Knowledge:

      • Levi, Issac.  The Enterprise of Knowledge: an Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability and Chance.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980.
      • Levi, Issac.  Gambling with Truth.  New York: Knopf, 1967.

      • Hookway, Christopher.  Truth, Rationality and Pragmatism.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

    • Morality:

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    • Nature:

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    • Philosophy/Theory:

      • Stuhr, John.  Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2002.

    • Religion:

      • Anderson, Victor.  Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersections of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

    • Society:

      • Danisch, Robert.  Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric.  Columbus: U of South Carolina P, 2007.

      • Green, Judith M.  Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.

      • Talisse, Robert B.  A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy.  London: Routledge, 2007.

      • Talisse, Robert B.  Democracy after Liberalism.  London: Routledge, 2005.

      • Westbrook, Robert B.  Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth.  Ithaca: Cornel UP, 2005.

On-Line:

• Archives:
• Selected Indidvidual Works:
  • General:
    • Hildebrand, David L.: The Neopragmatist Turn Southwest Philosophy Review 19.1 (2003): .

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

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      • Film:

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      • Literature:

        • Hildebrand, David L.: Pragmatism and Literary Criticism REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Critchley, Simon, ed.  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  London: Routledge, 1996.

    • De Tienne, Andre, and John Shook, eds.  The Cambridge School of Pragmatism.  Bristol: Thoemmes, 2006.
    • Hollinger, Robert, and David Depew, eds.  Pragmatism: from Progressivism to Postmodernism.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
    • Lamberth, David C., ed.  James and Royce Reconsidered: Reflections on the Centenary of Pragmatism.  2009.
    • Mailloux, Steven, ed.  Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

    • Misak, Cheryl, ed.  New Pragmatists.  Oxford: OUP, 2007.

    • Olin, D., ed.  Pragmatism in Focus.  London: Routledge, 1992.

    • Shook, John, and Joseph Margolis, eds.  Companion to Pragmatism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

    • Shusterman, Richard, ed.  The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

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      • Literature:

        • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Modern North American Criticism and Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.

    • Communication:

      • Mailloux, Steven, ed.  Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

    • Education:

      • Troehler, D., and J. Oelkers, eds.  Pragmatism and Education.  Sense, 2006.

    • History:

    • Human Being:

    • Knowledge:

      • Olsson, Erik J., ed.  Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

    • Morality:

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    • Society:

      • Brint, Michael, ed.  Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

• Selected Individual Works:
  • General:
    • Aune, Bruce.  Rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism: an Introduction.  New York: Random House, 1988.
    • Ayer, A. J.  The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James.  New York: Macmillan, 1968.
    • Clarke, David S.  Some Pragmatist Themes.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007.
    • Conkin, Paul K.  Puritans and Pragmatists: Eight Eminent American Thinkers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1968.
    • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America.  Vol. 8 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1966.
    • De Waal, Cornelius.  Pragmatism.  2005.
    • Diggins, John Patrick.  The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. 
    • Diggins, John Patrick.  The Problem of Pragmatism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.

    • Eames, S. Morris.  Pragmatic Naturalism.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1977.

    • Feffer, Andrew.  The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

    • Fisch, Max.  "American Pragmatism Before and After 1898."  Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.  283-304.

    • Hamner, M. Gail.  American Pragmatism: a Religious Genealogy.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.

    • Hildebrand, David L.  Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists.  Memphis: Vanderbilt UP, 2003.

    • Livingston, James.  Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History.  London: Routledge, 2001.

    • Livingston, James.  Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940.  Durham: U of North Carolina P, 1997.

    • Lovejoy, Arthur O.  "The Thirteen Pragmatisms."  Journal of Philosophy 5 (1908): 5-39.

    • Margolis, Joseph.  The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.

    • Margolis, Joseph.  Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

    • Margolis, Joseph.  Pragmatism without Foundations: Reconciling Realism and Relativism (The Persistence of Reality).  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

    • McCarthy, E. Doyle.  "Self-Knowledges: the American Tradition."  Knowledge as Culture: the New Sociology of Knowledge.  London: Routledge, 1996.  64-84.

    • McDermid, Douglas.  Varieties of Pragmatism.  London: Continuum, 2008.

    • Menand, Louis.  The Metaphysical Club: a Story of Ideas in America.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.

    • Moore, E. C.  American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey.  New York: Columbia UP, 1961.

    • Morris, Charles.  The Pragmatic Movement in American Philosophy.  New York: George Braziller, 1970.

    • Mounce, H. O.  The Two Pragmatisms: from Peirce to Rorty.  London: Routledge, 1997.

    • Murphy, John P.  Pragmatism: from Peirce to Davidson.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990.

    • Richardson, Joan.  A Natural History of Pragmatism: the Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

    • Riley, I. Woodbridge.  American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond.  New York: Henry Holt, 1923.

    • Rockmore,Tom.  "On Classical and Neo-Analytic Forms of Pragmatism."  Metaphilosophy 36.3 (2005): 259-271.

    • Rucker, Darnell.  The Chicago Pragmatists.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1969.

    • Scheffler, I.  Four Pragmatists.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

    • Sleeper, Ralph W.  The Necessity of Pragmatism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

    • Smith, John.  Purpose and Thought: the Meaning of Pragmatism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

    • Talisse, Robert B., and Scott F. Aikin.  Pragmatism: a Guide for the Perplexed.  London: Continuum, 2008.

    • Thayer, H. S.  Meaning and Action: a Critical History of Pragmatism.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.  Rpt. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

    • Tiles, J. E.  "American Pragmatism: Peirce to Rorty."  The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  239-

    • Wilshire, Bruce W.  The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology and Native American Thought.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.

  • Topics:

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        • Leitch, Vincent.  American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988 
        • Lentricchia, Frank.  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
        • Wellek, Rene.  American Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

    • Communication:

      • Innis, Robert E.  Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2002.

    • Education:

      • Biesta, Gert J., and Nicholas C. Burbules.  Pragmatism and Educational Research.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

    • History:

    • Human Being:

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      • Weiner, Philip.  Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1949.

    • Philosophy/Theory:

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    • Society:

      • Festenstein, Matthew.  Pragmatism and Political Theory: from Dewey to Rorty.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.

      • Joas, Hans.  Pragmatism and Social Theory.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

      • Kloppenberg, James.  Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920.  Oxford: OUP, 1986.

      • Lewis, J. David.  American Sociology and Pragmatism: Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

On-Line:

• General:
  • Haack, Susan Pragmatism, Old and New Contemporary Pragmatism 1.1 (2004)
  • Heartfield, James: American Pragmatism

  • Hildebrand, David L.:

    • The Neopragmatist Turn

    • Neopragmatism and the Relativist Menace

  • Hookway, Christopher: Pragmatism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  • McDermid, Douglas: Pragmatism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

  • Pfeiffer, Raymond, ed.  American Pragmatism Philosophy Now 43 (October / November 2003)

  • Weiner, Philip P.: Pragmatism Dictionary of the History of Ideas

  • Web Companion to Pragmatism

  • Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

    • Postanalytic Philosophy

    • Pragmatism: Neopragmatism

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    • Macbeth, Danielle: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55.3 (1995): 501-523

  • Education:

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  • Human Being:

    • Wiley, Norbert: Pragmatism and the Dialogical Self International Journal of Dialogical Science 1.1 (2006)

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    • Pihlstrom, Sami: Truthmaking and Pragmatist Conceptions of Truth and Reality Minerva 9 (2005)

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    • Butler, Brian Edgar: Legal Pragmatism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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