Page 1 Cornel West THE AMERICAN EVASION OF PHILOSOPHY A Genealogy of Pragmatism
RORTY QUINE TRILLING HOOK NIEBUHR DU BOIS MILLS DEWEY PEIRCE JAMES …

Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its
birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a …

Morris R. Cohen once described pragmatism as" a philosophy for people who cannot think";
and Bertrand Russell feared that pragmatism would lead philosophy into" cosmic impiety." …

In contemporary philosophical debates in the United States" redefining pragmatism" has
become the conventional way to flag significant philosophical contests and to launch large …

The most important distinctively American contribution to philosophy is the pragmatist
tradition. In this short, lucid, and completely convincing exposition, Professor John P. Murphy …

Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late
nineteenth century. This book, by one of todayÕs most distinguished contemporary heirs of …

A wide-ranging anthology of key pragmatist writings The Pragmatism Reader is the essential
anthology of this important philosophical movement. Each selection featured here is a key …

The reformist philosophy of the classical pragmatist tradition has gradually evolved into the
now-fashionable revolutionary styles of pragmatism, some scientistic, some literary. This …

The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy
the insights and arguments of great American philosophers such as CS Peirce, William …

Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of
the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This …