CONTENTS
An Introduction to Pragmatism xi
A Note on the Selections xxxv
The First Generation 1
Charles Sanders Peirce 3
from Consequences of Four Incapacities (1968) 4
The Fixation of Belief (1877) 7
How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878) 26
from a Guess at the Riddle (ca. 1890) 49
from Evolutionary Love (1893) 52
A Definition of Pragmatism (ca. 1904) 56
William James 59
from Habit, in The Principles of Psychology (1890) 60
The Will to Believe (1896) 69
What Pragmatism Means, in Pragmatism (1907) 93
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth, in Pragmatism (1907) 112
from A Pluralistic Universe (1909) 132
Oliver Wendell Holmes 136
from Lecture I: Early Forms of Liability, in The Common Law (1881) 137
from Lecture III:Torts--Trespass and Negligence, in The Common Law (1881) 139
from Privilege, Malice, and Intent (1894) 142
The Path of the Law (1897) 145
from Ideals and Doubts (1915) 170
Natural Law (1918) 173
from Abrams v. United States (1919) 178
John Dewey 181
The Ethics of Democracy (1888) 182
Theories of Knowledge, in Democracy and Education (1916) 205
from The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy (1917) 219
Experience, Nature and Art, in Experience and Nature (1925) 233
I Believe (1939) 265
Jane Addams 272
from A Function of the Social Settlement (1899) 273
George Herbet Mead 287
The Mechanism of Social Consciousness (1912) 288
A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self (ca. 1927) 296
Contemporary Pragmatism 301
Richard Rorty 303
Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida (1978-79) 304
Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism (1983) 329
Hilary Putnam 337
Fact and Value, in Reason, Truth and History (1981) 338
Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels 363
from Against Theory (1982) 364
Richard J. Bernstein 381
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds (1988) 382
Cornel West 402
from Prophetic Pragmatism, in The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989) 403
Richard A. Posner 417
A Pragmatist Manifesto, in The Problems of Jurisprudence (1990) 418
Richard Poirier 437
Reading Pragmatically, in Poetry and Pragmatism (1992) 456
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob from The Future of History, in Telling the Truth About History (1994) 457
Bibliography 469
Notes 475
Index 515