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Pragmatism with Purpose: Selected Writings

Peter Hare, Joseph Palencik, Douglas Anderson, and Steven A. Miller

Abstract

This book is a collection of selected writings by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes chapters on “holistic pragmatism” that the author developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and Charles Sanders Peirce and commentaries on the profession.

Keywords: holistic pragmatism, Peter Hare, American philosophical tradition, Morton White, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2015 Print ISBN-13: 9780823264322
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2016 DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823264322.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Peter Hare, author
University of Buffalo, SUNY

Joseph Palencik, editor
Indian River State College

Douglas Anderson, editor
Souther Illinois University, Carbondale

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Introduction Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown?

Vincent Colapietro

Autobiographical Occasions

Peter Hare

Part One The Ethics of Belief

One The Right and Duty to Will to Believe

with Peter Kauber

Two William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief

with Edward H. Madden

Three Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief

Peter Hare

Part Two Reflections on Classical Pragmatism

Four A Critical Appraisal of James’s View of Causality

with Edward H. Madden

Five In Memoriam

Peter Hare

Six The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism

Peter Hare

Part Three Naturalism, Holism, Contextualism

Seven Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics

Peter Hare

Eight Thickening Holistic Pragmatism

Peter Hare

Part Four The Philosophy of Religion

Nine On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil

with Edward H. Madden

Ten Religion and Analytic Naturalism

Peter Hare

Eleven Buchler’s Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology

with John Ryder

Part Five Philosophy Past and Future

Twelve Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism

with John Lincourt

Thirteen The Future of American Philosophy

Peter Hare

Part Six Poetry

Fourteen What Are Poets for? Contextualism and Pragmatism

Peter Hare

Fifteen Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher

Peter Hare

Sixteen Deep Conceptual Play in William James

Peter Hare

Part Seven Social Critique

Seventeen Reflections on Civil Disobedience

with Edward H. Madden

Eighteen The American Mind

Peter Hare

Nineteen The Death Penalty Debate

Peter Hare

Twenty Values of the American Intellectual Class

Peter Hare

End Matter

Index

American Philosophy