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Beginning with the assumption that philosophy - the Greek love of wisdom - is alive and well in American culture, this work traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Contributors -- How Constructive Engagement of Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy is Possible: A Theme Introduction -- PART ONE CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES, RELATIVISM, AND CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING -- Chapter One Relativism and Its Schemes -- Chapter Two Davidson and Chinese Conceptual Scheme -- Chapter Three Making Room for Comparative Philosophy: Davidson, Brandom, and Conceptual Distance -- PART TWO PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter Four Where Charity Begins -- Chapter Five Davidson's Charity in the Context of Chinese Philosophy -- PART THREE RATIONALITY, NORMATIVITY, AND INTER-CULTURAL DISAGREEMENT -- Chapter Six Davidsonian Rationality and Ethical Disagreement between Cultures -- Chapter Seven A Davidsonian Approach to Normativity and the Limits of Cross-Cultural Interpretation -- PART FOUR MEANING AND INTERPRETATION -- Chapter Eight On Two Kinds of Meaning and Interpretation -- Chapter Nine Metaphorical Use versus Metaphorical Essence: Examples from Chinese Philosophy -- Chapter Ten Reading the Analects with Davidson: Mood, Force, and Communicative Practice in Early China -- PART FIVE TRUTH CONCERN AND DAO CONCERN -- Chapter Eleven From Donald Davidson's Use of "Convention T" to Meaning and Truth in Chinese Language -- Chapter Twelve Truth Pursuit and Dao Pursuit: From Davidson's Approach to Classical Daoist Approach in View of the Thesis of Truth as Strategic Normative Goal -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Inheritance, Teaching, and the Insane Angels of American Culture: Our Cultural Invisibility -- One. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism -- Two. Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering: A Job Description -- Three. Wilderness as Philosophical Home -- Four. Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom -- Five. Wildness as Political Act -- Six. ''After All, He's Just a Man'' -- Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert -- Eight. John Dewey's Sensible Mysticism -- Nine. ''Born to Run'' -- Ten. Philosophy as Teaching -- Eleven. Learning and Teaching -- Twelve. Emerson's Platonizing of American Thought -- Thirteen. American Loss in Cavell's Emerson -- Fourteen. Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous Angels of Hope and Loss -- Fifteen. Pragmatic Intellectuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index