Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology [Hardcover]

This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions. The main theoretical thrust of Dewey is to unite inquiry with behavior and this book's contributions assess this insight in the light of developments in modern American philosophy, social and legal theories, and the theoretical orientation of economics.
This unique book contains impressive contributions from a range of different perspectives and its unique nature will make it required reading for academics involved with philosophy and economics.

Introduction

John Dewey, the Transactional View and the Behavioural Sciences

Part One: Pragmatism and Postmodernism

1. Five Milestones of Pragmatism Frank X. Ryan

2. John Dewey and the Pragmatic Century Richard Bernstein

3. Putnam and Rorty on their Pramatist Heritage: Re-Reading James and Dewey Sami Pihlstr?m

4. Dewey and/or Rorty Joseph Margolis

5. Avoiding Wrong Turns: A Philippic Against the Lingustification of Pragmatism David L. Hildebrand

6. Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism Larry A. Hickman

7. Toward a Truly Pragmatic Theory of Signs: Reading Peirce's Semeiotic in Light of Dewey's Gloss Vincent Colapietro

Part Two: Inquiry, Language and Nature

8. Dewey on Inquiry and Language - After Bentley John E. Smith

9. Dewey, Analytic Epistemology, and Biology Peter H. Hare

10. Pragmatic Naturalism, Knowing the World, and the Issue of Foundations: Beyond the Modernist-Postmodernist Alternative Sandra Rosenthal

Part Three: Inquiry and Society

11. John Dewey and the Intersection of Democracy and Law &ll&