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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

Ernest Gellner's "Reflections on Philosophy, Especially in America" in the June Worldview contains so many perceptive and challenging statements that it merits a reply. It is also sufficiently confused and dubious in its conclusions as to require criticism. As a teacher of philosophy for over two decades, I am concerned about philosophy's role in contemporary and national life, and hence I am stimulated to make the following points.What is the essence of Professor Gellner's assessment?

Cover -- Copyright and Use -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- 1 Overview of Classical Pragmatism -- 2 Pierce on Belief -- 3 Pierce on Feeling and Metaphysics -- 4 James on Consciousness and Truth -- 5 Dewey on Society -- 6 Dewey: Experience and Pragmatism -- 7 Conclusion: Dewey on Pierce and James -- Bibliography.

Hearing Steiner's anthroposophy in Emerson's prophetic voice / by Gertrude Reif Hughes -- Deliberate lives, deliberate living: Thoreau and Steiner in conversation / by Rebecca Kneale Gould -- Charles Sanders Peirce and Rudolf Steiner : prophetic philosophers / by Robert McDermott -- William James and Rudolf Steiner / by Robert McDermott -- Josiah Royce and Rudolf Steiner: a comparison and contrast / by Frank M. Oppenheim, S. J -- Steiner's anthroposophy and Whitehead's philosophy / by David Ray Griffin -- John Dewey's project for "saving the appearances" : exploring some of its implications for education and ethics / by Douglas Sloan -- Rudolf Steiner's activist epistemology and its relation to feminist thought in America / by Gertrude Reif Hughes

Cover -- Routledge History of Philosophy -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- General editors' preface -- Notes on contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophy of language -- 2 Formally oriented work in the philosophy of language -- 3 Metaphysics I (1900-45) -- 4 Metaphysics II (1945 to the present) -- 5 Ethics I (1900-45) -- 6 Ethics II (1945 to the present) -- 7 Epistemology -- 8 Wittgenstein's later philosophy -- 9 Political philosophy -- 10 Feminist philosophy -- 11 Philosophy of law -- 12 Applied ethics -- 13 Aesthetics -- 14 Philosophy of religion -- Glossary -- Index.