Pragmatism Revisited
Published on 19. March 2026
Book
Hardback
338 pages
978-1-009-45381-3 (ISBN)
Description
Pragmatism originated in the United States in the 1870s, and since then it has been influential on numerous areas of philosophical thought. This volume of new essays demonstrates pragmatism's continuing vitality and relevance to epistemology, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, metaphysics, and more. Drawing upon the thought of classical pragmatists including Peirce, James, Dewey, Addams, and du Bois, as well as upon that of more recent pragmatists such as Rorty, the essays address a diverse set of topics including artificial intelligence, authoritarianism, feminism, criminal punishment, the value of the environment, the black intellectual tradition, religious fundamentalism, academic freedom, and the moral status of prenatal humans. Concluding with leading contemporary pragmatist Cheryl Misak's reflections on the future of the tradition, the volume demonstrates that pragmatism continues to be a source of valuable ideas and methods for philosophy today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-45381-3 (9781009453813)
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Robert Lane is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Peirce on Realism and Idealism (Cambridge, 2018), and of numerous journal articles on pragmatism and on biomedical ethics.
Content
Preface; Contributors; Introduction Robert Lane; 1. Pragmatism and the imagination Chiara Ambrosio; 2. Pragmatism and conceptual change: from engineering to care Anna Boncompagni; 3. Pragmatism and ignorance Richard Kenneth Atkins; 4. Pragmatism, religious fundamentalism, and the shadow of a dead God Cornelis De Waal; 5. Pragmatism, truth, and authoritarianism Andrew Howat; 6. Pragmatism and authoritarian populism Matthew Festenstein; 7. Pragmatism and academic freedom: the university as intellectual experiment station from Humboldt to Peirce and Dewey Shannon Dea; 8. Pragmatism and punishment Raff Donelson; 9. Pragmatism and the environment Henrik Rydenfelt; 10. Pragmatism and reproductive bioethics: a Peircean framework for considering the prenatal human Robert Lane; 11. Peirce and generative AI Catherine Legg; 12. Pragmatism and the black intellectual tradition Jacoby Adeshei Carter; 13. Pragmatism, feminism, gender, and identities Nuria Sara Miras Boronat; 14. Pragmatism, ontology, social justice Robert Kraut; 15. The future of pragmatism Cheryl Misak; Bibliography; Index.