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Locality in American culture and the American experience / William J. Gavin -- The pragmatic scholar and the history of American philosophy / James Campbell -- Living creatively, while terminal / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley -- The "bite" of the existential "moment" / Michael W. Allen -- McDermott's processive-relational personalism : optimism? : No! : Hope? : Perhaps! / Eugene Fontinell -- Landscape and personscape in urban aesthetics / Richard E. Hart -- What does it mean to have an ethics? / Paul B. Thompson -- No eros, no buds : teaching as nectaring / Arthur Lothstein -- The necessity of a cultural pedagogy / John Ryder -- Afterword : you are really able

This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Peirce, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Buchler, and others, the contributors assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. Within the broad background of the American tradition, the essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged. Some of the pieces argue from an historical dialogue with the tradition, some are more polemically involved with American philosophy's current status among the contemporary philosophical "schools," and still others seek to reveal the possibilities for the future of American philosophy. In thus addressing past, present, and future, the pieces, taken together, outline a trajectory for American philosophy that reinvents its importance from a new angle of vision