Pragmatism With Purpose Selected Writings

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The ethics of Belief The right and duty to will to believe ..............31 William James, Dickinson miller, and C J Ducasse on the ethics of Belief ........63 2. Reflections on Classical Pragmatism A critical Appraisal of James`s View of Causality .....85 In Memoriam : Frederic Harold Young and the founding of the Peirce society .......98 The american philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism ................117 3. Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics .......125 Thickening holistic Pragmatism ..........132 4. The philosophy of Religion On the Defficulty of Evading the problem of Evil .....155 Religion and analytic naturalism ..............167 Buchler`s Ordinal Metaphysics and process theology ..............174 5. Philosophy past and future Neglected american philosophers in the history of Symbolic Interactionism ...............189 The future of American Philosophy .....195 6. Poetry What are poets for ? Contextualism and pragmatism ........209 Misunderstandings between poet and philosopher: Wallace stevens and paul Weiss.................215 Deep conceptual Play in William James ........227 7. Social Critique Reflections on Civil Disobedience ........245 The american Mind ............263 The death penalty debates : A humanist`s Understanding of America`s Social Problems .........270 Values of the American Intellectual Class ..................279