The dramatic resurgence of American Pragmatism was one of the most important intellectual developments in the Twentieth Century. As the influence of this revitalised movement continues to spread across a variety of disciplines ranging from law to literary theory, the time is ripe for a considered reassessment of both its origins in the works of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey and its later revival in the hands of thinkers such as Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam.

VOLUME ONE: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRAGMATISMIntroduction - Alan Malachowski Possibilities of PragmatismPART ONEThe Development of American Pragmatism - John DeweyPragmatisms - Louis MenandPART TWOThe Fixation of Belief - Charles S PeirceHow to Make Our Ideas Clear - Charles S PeirceWhat Pragmatism Is - Charles S PeirceIssues of Pragmatism - Charles S PeircePhilosophy and the Conduct of Life - Charles S PeircePART THREEThe Will to Believe - William JamesThe Pragmatic Method - William JamesWhat Pragmatism Means - William JamesPragmatism¿s Conception of Truth - William JamesThe Meaning of the Word Truth - William JamesPART FOURWhat Pragmatism Means by Practical - John DeweyThe Practical Character of Reality - John DeweyThe Construction of Good - John DeweyThe Pattern of Inquiry - John DeweyEducation as Growth - John DeweyPART FIVECircles - Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Social Self - George Herbert MeadA Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori - Clarence Irving LewisVOLUME TWO: THE REVIVAL OF PRAGMATISMPART ONETwo Dogmas of Empiricism - W V QuineThinking as Instrumental - Sydney HookPragmatism, Pluralism and the Healing of Wounds - Richard BernsteinPragmatism, Relativism and Irrationalism - Richard RortyPragmatism and Relativism - Hilary Putnam Universal Values and Traditional Ways of LifePART TWOC S Peirce - David Wiggins Belief, Truth and Going from the Known to the UnknownTruth and the Convergence of Opinion - Christopher HookwayJames¿s Theory of Truth - Hilary PutnamRadical Empiricism - Graham BirdDewey¿s Metaphysics - Richard RortyDewey and Democracy - James CampbellThinking in the Emersonian Way - Mark BauerleinPART THREEThe Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science - Alan WolfeHermeneutical Philosophy and Pragmatism - Patrick Heelan and Jay Schulkin A Philosophy of ScienceVarieties of Pragmatism - Robert KrautPragmatism and Truth - Douglas McDermid The Comparison Objection to CorrespondencePragmatism and the Philosophy of Language - Danielle MacbethPragmatism in Its Own Right - Alan MalachowskiWhat¿s Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? - David LubanCulture, Nature, Eocosystem (or ¿Why Nature Can¿t Be Naturalised¿) - Rupert ReadVOLUME THREE: CRITICAL RESPONSESPART ONEWilliam James¿ ¿Pragmatism¿ - G E MooreProfessor Dewey¿s ¿Essays in Experimental Logic¿ - Bertrand RussellDewey¿s New Logic - Bertrand RussellThe Pragmatist Account of Truth and Its Misunderstanders - William JamesJames, Aboutness and His British Critics - T L S SpriggeThe Relevance of Dewey¿s Epistemology - Joseph MargolisPeirce¿s Logic of Pragmatic Inference - Mark BauerleinPART TWORorty, Putnam and the Pragmatist View of Epistemology and Metaphysics - Teed RockwellWhat is at Stake Between Putnam and Rorty? - Paul D FosterRorty¿s Interpretation of Pragmatism - Garry BrodskyThe Betrayal of Pragmatism - Ryan E Cull Rorty¿s Quarrel with JamesPhilosophy as a Kind of Narrative - Christopher Norris Rorty on Post-Modern Liberal CultureDeconstruction and Pragmatism - Simon Critchley Is Derrida a Private Ironist or a Public Liberal?Pragmatism Minus Truth/No Limit - Alan MalachowskiPART THREEFive Myths about Pragmatism, or, Against a Second Pragmatic Acquiescence - Eric A MacGilvrayPragmatism, Social Democracy and Political Argument - Matthew FestensteinPragmatism - Hilary PutnamWhat¿s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? - Stanley CavellReligion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism - Giles GunnPragmatism, Philosophy and Ways of Living - Alan Malachowski