Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology

Elias L. Khalil was Director of the Behavioral Research Council, American Institute for Economic Research. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Department of Economics, Vassar College, USA.

• IntroductionJohn Dewey, the Transactional View and the Behavioural SciencesPart One: Pragmatism and Postmodernism1. Five Milestones of Pragmatism Frank X. Ryan2. John Dewey and the Pragmatic Century Richard Bernstein3. Putnam and Rorty on their Pramatist Heritage: Re-Reading James and Dewey Sami Pihlström4. Dewey and/or Rorty Joseph Margolis5. Avoiding Wrong Turns: A Philippic Against the Lingustification of Pragmatism David L. Hildebrand6. Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism Larry A. Hickman7. Toward a Truly Pragmatic Theory of Signs: Reading Peirce's Semeiotic in Light of Dewey's Gloss Vincent ColapietroPart Two: Inquiry, Language and Nature8. Dewey on Inquiry and Language - After Bentley John E. Smith9. Dewey, Analytic Epistemology, and Biology Peter H. Hare10. Pragmatic Naturalism, Knowing the World, and the Issue of Foundations: Beyond the Modernist-Postmodernist Alternative Sandra RosenthalPart Three: Inquiry and Society11. John Dewey and the Intersection of Democracy and Law Richard Posner12. Truth but No Consequences: Why Philosophy Doesn't Matter Stanley Fish13. The Logical Necessity of Ideologies Tom Burke14. Pragmatism John J. Stuhr15. Corrigibilism Without Solidarity Isaac LeviPart Four: Economic Methodology16. Pragmatism, Knowledge, and Economic Science: Deweyan Pragmatic Philosophy and Contemporary Economic Methodology D. Wade Hands17. A Deweyan Economic Methodology Alex Viskovatoff18. Dewey and Economic Reality Michael S. Lawlor19. The Subjectivist Methodology of Austrian Economics and Dewey's Theory of Inquiry Peter Boettke, Don Lavoie and Virgil Storr20. After the 'New Economics,' Pragmatist Turn? William Milberg