Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

"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

Table of Contents:

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