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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Autobiographical Occasions -- One. The Right and Duty to Will to Believe -- Two. William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief -- Three. Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief -- Four. A Critical Appraisal of James’s View of Causality -- Five. In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905–2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society -- Six. The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism -- Seven. Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics -- Eight. Thickening Holistic Pragmatism -- Nine. On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil -- Ten. Religion and Analytic Naturalism -- Eleven. Buchler’s Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology -- Twelve. Neglected American Phi los o phers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism -- Thirteen. The Future of American Philosophy -- Fourteen. What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism -- Fifteen. Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss -- Sixteen. Deep Conceptual Play in William James -- Seventeen. Reflections on Civil Disobedience -- Eighteen. The American Mind -- Nineteen. The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist’s Understanding of America’s Social Problems -- Twenty. Values of the American Intellectual Class -- Notes -- Index -- american philosophy
Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession