Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of many philosophy books including Animal Pragmatism (2004) and Living with Animals (2020) and is co-editor of Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Bloomsbury, 2022).Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. He is an expert in American philosophy and is author of books such as Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (2002) and co-editor many philosophical volumes including American Philosophies: An Anthology (2002).

• Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction: American Philosophy TodayPART I—1894-1918Chapter 2: Defining Pluralism: Simon Pokagon, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and T. Thomas Fortune.Chapter 3: Evolution and American Indian Philosophy Chapter 4: Feminist Resistance: Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins GilmanChapter 5: Labor, Empire and the Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Jane AddamsChapter 6: A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking: William James Chapter 7: Making Ideas Clear: Charles Sanders Peirce Chapter 8: The Beloved Community and its Discontents: Josiah Royce and the RealistsChapter 9: War, Anarchism, and Sex: Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger Chapter 10: Democracy and Social Ethics: John Dewey Chapter 11: Naturalism and Idealism, Fear and Conventionality: Mary Whiton Calkins and Elsie Clews ParsonsPART II—1918-1939Chapter 12: Race Riots and the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois Chapter 13: Philosophy Reacts: Hartley Burr Alexander and Morris R. Cohen Chapter 14: Creative Experience: Mary Parker Follett Chapter 15: Cultural Pluralism: Horace Kallen and Alain Locke PART III—1939-1979Chapter 16: War and the Rise of Logical Positivism: Otto Neurath and Rudolf CarnapChapter 17: McCarthyism and American Empiricism: Jacob Loewenberg, Henry Sheffer, C. I. Lewis, and Charles MorrisChapter 18: The Linguistic Turn: Gustav Bergmann, May Brodbeck, and W. V. O. QuineChapter 19: Resisting the Turn: Donald Davidson, Wilfrid Sellars, and the “Pluralist Rebellion”PART IV—Applying PhilosophyChapter 20: Philosophy Outside: John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Rachel CarsonChapter 21: Economics and Technology: Lewis Mumford, C. Wright Mills, and John Kenneth GalbraithChapter 22: Politics: John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, and Noam ChomskyPART V—Social RevolutionsChapter 23: Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright and James Baldwin.Chapter 24: Black Power: Malcolm X, James Cone, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Angela Davis, and Cornel WestChapter 25: Latin American American Philosophy Chapter 26: Red Power, Indigenous Philosophy: Vine Deloria, Jr. and Contemporary American Indian ThoughtChapter 27: Feminism Chapter 28: Engaged Philosophy and the Environment Part VI: American Philosophy TodayChapter 29: Recovering and Sustaining the American Tradition Chapter 30: American Philosophy Revitalized Chapter 31: The Spirit of American Philosophy in the New CenturyChapter 32: Race and American PhilosophyChapter 33: Pragmatism and the politics of the Extreme

Encyclopaedic in scope, McKenna and Pratt offer a panoramic view of American Philosophies. Highly recommended as a first read and constant companion in a field that is large and contains multitudes.