Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy

William Egginton is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity and translated and wrote the introduction to Lisa Block de Behar's Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quotation, both published by SUNY Press. Mike Sandbothe is Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Friedrich Schiller University at Jena. His most recent book is The Temporalization of Time: Basic Tendencies in Modern Debate on Time in Philosophy and Science.

• Introduction Mike Sandbothe and William Egginton 1. The Insistence on Futurity: Pragmatism's Temporal StructureLudwig Nagl 2. Philosophy as a Reconstructive Activity: William James on Moral Philosophy Hilary Putnam 3. Pragmatic Aspects of Hegel's Thought Antje Gimmler 4. The Pragmatic Twist of the Linguistic Turn Mike Sandbothe 5. The Debate About Truth: Pragmatism without Regulative Ideas Albrecht Wellmer 6. The Viewpoint of No One in Particular Arthur Fine 7. A Pragmatist View of Contemporary Analytic Philosophy Richard Rorty 8. What Knowledge? What Hope? What New Pragmatism? Barry Allen 9. Richard Rorty: Philosophy Beyond Argument and Truth? Wolfgang Welsch 10. Keeping Pragmatism Pure: Rorty with Lacan William Egginton 11. Cartesian Realism and the Revival of Pragmatism Joseph Margolis Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index