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A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance. A new look at his philosophy of religion is crucially important for the development of this field of inquiry today. Guy Axtell, Radford University, Virginia, USA Niek Brunsveld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Dirk-Martin Grube, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands Susan Haack, University of Miami, USA Wayne Proudfoot, Columbia University, USA Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University, USA

Editorial -- Contents -- Part I: Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism -- Ernst Mach and Pragmatism - The Case of Mach's Popular Scientific Lectures (1895) -- William James and the Vienna Circle -- The "Pragmatic Oil" -- James, Mach, and others -- Wilhelm Jerusalem: The Viennese Supporter of James' Pragmatism -- James, Vienna, and Philosophy of Science -- A Sequel to the Story -- References -- Classical Pragmatism and Metaphysics: James and Peirce on Scientific Determinism -- Introduction -- Contextualization: Scientific Determinism in the Late Nineteenth Century. A French Anti-deterministic Tradition -- William James on Scientific Determinism -- Charles S. Peirce on Scientific Determinism -- Closing Remarks: Pragmatism, Metaphysics and Science -- References -- Beyond Realism and Antirealism? The Strange Case of Dewey's Instrumentalism -- Reichenbach: Dewyan Instrumentalism from a Positivist Point of View -- Alternate Readings of Dewyan Instrumentalism -- Naturalist Empiricism -- Beyond Realism and Antirealism? -- Instrumentalism: Realism or Antirealism? -- Instrumentalism: Method or Theory? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Dewey's Works -- Essays -- Further Sources -- American Pragmatism, Central-European Pragmatism and the First Vienna Circle -- Introduction -- The First Vienna Circle and American Pragmatism -- The Endorsement of Pragmatism in Schlick's Vienna Circle -- The Problematic Nature of Some Pragmatist Anti-aprioricisms -- Central European Pragmatism -- The First Vienna Circle, Viennese Empiricism and Pragmatism -- Conclusion -- References -- On Rational Restraints of Ontology -- The Armchair Problem -- Rational Restraints and Ontological Context -- Trust in Sense Experience and Scientific Experiments -- Organization of Sensations by Means of Concepts -- Logical or Argumentative Rationality -- Conclusions

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant's writings.