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Intro -- Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: The Obligations of Philosophers -- 2: Prolegomena to Pragmatist Conception of the Good Life -- 3: Practicing Philosophy in the Experience of Living: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the American Philosophical Tradition -- 4: Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing and Improving Life -- 5: The Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition -- 6: Richard Rorty's Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of Humanism -- Index.

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