American Philosophy

Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University, USA.Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA.

• Prologue Chapter 1: Introduction PART 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 Century

The most comprehensive and inclusive introductory guide to how philosophy in the United States has served a role in the history of domination and the struggle for liberation of all of its groups. [...] This splendid work is necessary reading for students, philosophers, historians, and sociologists.