Pragmatism - A Living Tradition

Russell B. Goodman, Regents Professor, Philosophy Department, University of New Mexico

Author, Wittgenstein and William James (Cambridge, 2002), American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge, 1990), “Emerson, James, Dewey,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, ed Cheryl Misak (forthcoming), “Some Sources of Hilary Putnam’s Pragmatism,” in Following Putnam’s Trail: On Realism and Other Issues, ed. M. Monroy and C. Cancela, Rodopi (forthcoming), “James on the Nonconceptual,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2004, “William James,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002, 2005, “Moral Perfectionism and Democracy in Emerson and Nietzsche, in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 1997. Editor, Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader (Routledge, 1995), Contending with Stanley Cavell (Oxford University Press, 2005), Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, 4 volumes (Routledge, 2005).

Cheryl Misak, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Author, Truth and the End of Inquiry: A Peircean Account of Truth (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2004, Truth, Politics, Morality: Pragmatism and Deliberation (Routledge, 2000), Verificationism: Its History and Prospects (Routledge, 1995), ‘Truth and Deliberative Virtue’ in Truth and Public Space, K. Vanhemelyrck (ed) Routledge (forthcoming). 'Truth and Our Practices: Why the Naturalist Can't Do Without Truth', in Essays for Kai Nielsen, M. Seymour (ed) (forthcoming), 'Levi's Place in the Pragmatist Pantheon’ in Essays for Isaac Levi, Eric Olson (ed), Philosophers and their Critics series, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ‘Truth in Science and Ethics’, Science: A Challenge to Philosophy? H. Koskinen, S. Pihlstrom (eds), Peter Lang, 2006. ‘Rescher and Objective Pragmatism’ in Contemporary Pragmatism, 2005, 'Realism, Anti-realism, and Empiricism' Blackwell's Companion to Pragmatism, J. Shook and J. Margolis (eds), Basil Blackwell, 2005, ‘Pragmatism and Pluralism: A Reply to Talisse’, Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, 2005, 'C. S. Peirce on Vital Matters' The Cambridge Companion to Peirce, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 'How Not to Think of Convergence on the Truth' The Modern Schoolman, 1999, 'Pragmatism and The Transcendental Turn in Truth and Ethics' Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, 1994, 'A Peircean Account of the Truth of Moral Judgements' H. Parret (ed), Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircean Ethics and Aesthetics, John Benjamins, 1994. Editor, The New Pragmatism Oxford University Press (in press), The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy (forthcoming).

Maria Baghramian, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, University College, Dublin

Author, Relativism: The Problems of Philosophy Series, (Routledge, 2004), Putnam: Mind, Language and the World (Polity Press, forthcoming), Modern Philosophy of Language, (J.M. Dent, 1998), “Relativism in Science,” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science (forthcoming), “Why Conceptual Schemes?” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1998, “Rorty, Davidson, and Truth,” in Ratio, 1990-1.'Davidson and Indeterminacy of Meaning' Paideia (link goes to article). Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Taylor and Francis, (with Attracta Ingram), Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity, Routledge, (2000).

William Blattner, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

Author, Heidegger's "Being and Time:" A Reader's Guide. Continuum Books, 2006. Heidegger's Temporal Idealism. Cambridge University Press, 1999, "Ontology, the Apriori, and the Primacy of Practice: An Aporia in Heidegger's Early Philosophy,” in Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy, ed. S. Crowell and J. Malpas (Stanford University Press, forthcoming), "Laying the Ground for Metaphysics: Heidegger's Appropriation of Kant,” in The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, 2d ed., ed. Charles Guignon (2006), "The Primacy of Practice and Assertoric Truth: Dewey and Heidegger,” In Heidegger, Authenticity and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, vol. 1, ed. M. Wrathall and J. Malpas (M.I.T. Press, 2000), “Life is Not Literature,” in The Many Faces of Time, ed. John B. Brough and Lester Embree (Holland: Kluwer, 2000), “Is Heidegger a Representationalist?" Philosophical Topics 27 (1999), "Decontextualization, Standardization, and Deweyan Science,” in Man and World 28 (1995), "Existential Temporality in Being and Time (Why Heidegger is not a Pragmatist),” in Heidegger: A Critical Reader, ed. H. L. Dreyfus and H. Hall (Basil Blackwell, 1992).

Charles Guignon, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Florida

Author, Heidegger and the Problem of Knowledge (Hackett, 1983), On Being Authentic (Routledge, 2004), “On Saving Heidegger from Rorty,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1986, “Biting the Bullet: Rorty on Private and Public Morality” (with D. Hiley) in Reading Rorty, ed. A. Malachowski (Blackwell, 1990), “Philosophy after Wittgenstein and Heidegger,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1990, “Pragmatism or Hermeneutics? Epistemology After Foundationalism,” in The Interpretive Turn, eds. J. Bohman, D. Hiley and R. Shusterman, Cornell University Press, 1991, “Martin Heidegger,” “Phenomenology,” and “Hermeneutics,” in A Companion to Epistemology, eds. J. Dancy and E. Sosa (Blackell, 1992), “Existentialism,” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. J. Craig (Routledge, 2000), “Truth in Interpretation: Heidegger and Gadamer,” in Is There a Single Right Interpretation? ed. M. Krausz (Penn State, 2002), “Meaning in the Work of Art: A Hermeneutic Perspective,” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2003, “Heidegger’s Anti-dualism: Beyond Mind and Matter,” in R. Polt, ed. Heidegger’s Being and Time: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger (first edition, 1993, second edition, 2006), The Existentialists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), (with David Hiley) Richard Rorty (Cambridge, 2003), The Good Life (Hackett, 1999).

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