Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism,
from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. This ambitious …

Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of
naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of …

In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of
Brandom, according to which meanings are generally inferential roles, and the logical …

" Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with
irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where …

The figure of Richard Rorty stands in complex relation to the tradition of American
pragmatism. On the one hand, his intellectual creativity, lively prose, and bridge-building …

Finalist for the 2015 John N. Findlay Award in Metaphysics presented by the Metaphysical
Society of America Robert Cummings Neville offers a new theology of the ultimate and a …

Pragmatist Egalitarianism argues that a deep impasse plagues philosophical egalitarianism,
and sets forth a novel conception of equality rooted in American pragmatist thought that …

How should religion and ethics be studied if we want to understand what people believe and
why they act the way they do? In the 1980s and'90s postmodernist worries about led to …

In his writings on religion and American politics, Richard Rorty emphasizes how religious
language functions as a conversation-stopper. I approach religious language from a …

During the last 25 years, a large number of publications on the history of analytic philosophy
have appeared, significantly more than in the preceding period. As most of these works are …