Idealism and Pragmatism Traditions in Dialogue [Hardcover]

This book explores the complex relationship between the philosophical schools of idealism and pragmatism. Idealism is the older tradition, with roots in Plato and Platonism, and has been developed in a myriad of forms. At heart, it holds that reality is either mind-like, or is contained in the mind. Pragmatism is a newer school, traceable to the work of philosophers such as C.S. Peirce and William James in the mid-nineteenth century. It offers a distinctive account of meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics which stresses our place as agents within the world.

While these two schools have often been set at odds with one another, it is increasingly recognized that idealism and pragmatism share some important common ground, and that their respective histories have been intertwined. The contributions to this volume, by leading international scholars, put these debates in a new light by studying the interrelation across a range of thinkers and issues, including Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Royce, Renouvier and Collingwood on the one side, and Peirce, James, Dewey and Brandom on the other. This book was first published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Introduction Robert Stern

1. Hegel as a Pragmatist Dina Emundts

2. Hegel, Dewey, and Habits Steven Levine

3. An Hegelian Solution to a Tangle of Problems Facing Brandoms Analytic Pragmatism Paul Redding

4. Inference by Analogy and the Progress of Knowledge: From Reflection to Determination in Judgements of Natural Purpose Preston Stovall

5. A House at War Against Itself: Absolute Versus Pluralistic Idealism in Spinoza, Peirce, James and Royce Shannon Dea

6. Peirces Schelling-Fashioned Idealism and the Monstrous Mysticism of the East Paul Franks

7. Idealism, Pragmatism, anl£'