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The problems of pragmatist philosophers -- Encounters with the classical idiom -- Peirce' mixed theory of epistemic justification -- Fixing belief as epistemic conduct -- Clifford's pragmatism and the will to believe -- James's moral philosophy -- What is living and what is dead in Deweyan political theory -- Pragmatism and metaphilosophy -- Against triumphalism: defending analytic pragmatism -- Metaphilosophical creep -- Pragmatist metaphilosophy and skepticism -- Pragmatist proposals -- Can pragmatist be pluralists? -- The ethics of inquiry -- Global expressivism: is it still cool? -- On a certain blindness in pragmatist political philosophy -- Public argument in a free society -- Pragmatism as minimalist metaphilosophy

"This collection features fourteen original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. Section I analyzes Sellars's thought in light of his influential predecessors, namely Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, C.I. Lewis, Richard Hönigswald, John Cook Wilson, and Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz. The second group of essays explores from different perspectives Sellars's place within the analytic tradition, including the extent of his identification with analytic Kantianism and analytic pragmatism. The book's final section extracts some of the most significant lessons Sellars's work has to offer for contemporary philosophy. These chapters address his views on inference, his views on truth and its connection to recent discussions about truth-relativism and truth-pluralism, his conception of self-knowledge, and his theory of perceptual experience"--

Intro -- John Lachs's Practical Philosophy: Critical Essays on His Thought with Replies and Bibliography -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part 1: The Practice of Philosophizing -- 1 Lachs on Transcendence: Art's Relation to the Life of Reason -- 2 Thinking in the World: Expanding the Practical Uses of Philosophy -- 3 Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs -- 4 John Lachs's Relativism in Philosophical Education as Seen from a Practical Perspective -- 5 John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World -- Part 2: Philosophical Relationships -- 6 Lachs, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness -- 7 Lachs vs. Santayana -- 8 The Unadulterated Joy and the Pressure of Obligations in John Lachs's Philosophy -- Part 3 Stoic Pragmatism -- 9 How Stoic is Lachs's Pentapharmakos? -- 10 Toward an Ontology for Stoic Pragmatism -- 11 Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness -- 12 'Raisins in the Bread of Life': On the Practical Joys of Lachs's Stoic Pragmatism -- Part 4: Anthropology, Social Ethics, and Bioethics -- 13 The Unlived Life: The Main Nemesis of the Examined Life -- 14 Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable into the Constituent Actions of Human Beings? -- 15 Mediation and Its Discontents -- 16 Facing Death: Preparing for Dying as a Social Process -- 17 John Lachs on Happiness and Individuality -- Part 5 Addendum -- 18 Immediacy and the Future -- 19 Death and Self-Importance -- Part 6: Comprehensive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources -- Articles and Shorter Pieces -- Books -- Secondary Bibliography -- Directed Dissertations at Vanderbilt University -- Index

Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the 1870s to the present day. She traces the connections between classical American pragmatism and contemporary analytic philosophy, and draws out the continuing influence of pragmatist ideas in the recent history of philosophy.

The philosopher Penelope Maddy is well-known for her pursuit of 'Second Philosophy', a form of naturalism that sees the methods of philosophy as indistiguishable from those of the empirical sciences. This volume collects eleven of her recent essays (five new and six reprinted), exploring a range of topics--from methodology, epistemology, and the philosophy of science, to the philosophies of logic, arithmetic, and higher mathematics. Though the topics vary widely, each essay bears in one way or another on the description, exploration, or application of Second Philosophy, revealing the underlying systematic character of Maddy's thought.

Latin American philosophy is best understood as a type of applied philosophy devoted to issues related to the culture and politics of Latin America. This introduction provides a comprehensive overview of its central topics. It explores not only the unique insights offered by Latin American thinkers into the traditional pre-established fields of Western philosophy, but also the many 'isms' developed as a direct result of Latin American thought. Many concern matters of practical ethics and social and political philosophy, such as Lascasianism, Arielism, Bolívarism, modest and immodest feminisms, republicanism, positivism, Marxism, and liberationism. But there are also meta-philosophical 'isms' such as originalism and perspectivism. Together with clear and accessible discussions of the major issues and arguments, the book offers helpful summaries, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of terms. It will be valuable for all readers wanting to explore the richness and diversity of Latin American philosophy.

1. Introduction -- 2. The genesis of Euro-American philosophy -- 3. The Enlightenment revolutionaries -- 4. Beyond the Enlightenment revolutionaries -- 5. New England Transcendentalism and the continuing spirit of reform -- 6. The pragmatists -- 7. Recent developments in American philosophy : part I -- 8. Recent developments in American philosophy : part II.

This work brings together 14 papers on an array of topics from the many areas to which philosopher Thomas Scanlon has made path-breaking contributions, each of which develops a distinctive and independent position while critically engaging with central themes from Scanlon's own work in the area