From a philosophical point of view: selected studies
Prologue to A philosophy of culture (2002) -- Philosophy and man : an exhortation (1955) -- The social role of philosophy (1952) -- New horizons in philosophy (1960) -- A plea for an analytic philosophy of history (1953) -- Historical relativism and the evaluation of histories (2003) -- Historical inevitability (1956) -- Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003) -- John Dewey : a great philosopher of education (1966) -- Religion, politics, and the higher learning (1954) -- Religious commitment and higher education (1957) -- The university in transition (1966) -- Philosophy in a utopian institute for advanced study (1989) -- The analytic and the synthetic : an untenable dualism (1950) -- Ontological clarity and semantic obscurity (1951) -- On the church-frege solution of the paradox of analysis (1948) -- Oughts and cans (1979) -- Causation and action (1969) -- Hart and Honoré on causation in the law (1960) -- The question of free will : some preliminary remarks (1993) -- Harvard's philosophical heritage (1957) -- Experiment and necessity in Dewey's philosophy (1959) -- Value and obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949) -- Desire and desirability : a rejoinder to a posthumous reply by John Dewey (1996) -- Peirce's Summum Bonum and the ethical views of C.I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999) -- Normative ethics, normative epistemology, and Quine's holism (1986) -- Holistic pragmatism and ethics (2002) -- The psychologism of Hume and arithmetical truth (2003) -- Why annalists of ideas should be analysts of ideas (1975) -- The revolt against formalism in American social thought of the twentieth century (1947) -- Pragmatism and the revolt against formalism : revising some doctrines of William James (1986) -- The politics of epistemology (1989) -- Original sin, natural law, and politics (1956) -- Philosophy, The federalist, and the progressive era (1988) -- The American intellectual versus the American city (1961) -- The philosopher and the metropolis in America (1963) -- William James (1986) -- The later years of George Santayana (1963) -- English philosophy at mid-century : an American's impressions (1951) -- Memories of G.E. Moore (1959) -- W.V. Quine (2001)