Pragmatism and Justice

Susan Dieleman is Assistant Professor (with term) in the department of philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. She specializes in Social and Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Feminist Philosophy. She has published essays in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, The Pluralist, Social Philosophy Today, and Social Epistemology.David Rondel is Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. His areas of research specialization include egalitarianism, theories of distributive justice, Marx and Marxism, and American pragmatist political theory. He has published widely in these areas. His essays have appeared, among other places, in The Journal of Philosophical Research, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Contemporary Pragmatism.Christopher Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory.

• PermissionsList of ContributorsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Perspectives on Pragmatism and Justice Susan Dieleman, David Rondel, and Christopher J. Voparil Part I: The Pragmatist Turn To Justice Chapter 1. Justice as a Larger Loyalty Richard Rorty Chapter 2. Abnormal Justice Nancy FraserChapter 3. Pragmatism's Contribution to Nonideal Theorizing: Fraser, Addams, and Rorty Christopher J. VoparilChapter 4. Empirical Approaches to Injustice: Elizabeth Anderson and the Pragmatists Gregory PappasChapter 5. Ideal and Actual in Dewey's Political Theory Matthew FestensteinChapter 6. Justice in Context Ruth Anna PutnamChapter 7. Realism, Pragmatism, and Critical Social Epistemology Susan Dieleman Part II: Resisting Oppression and InjusticeChapter 8. Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality in Dialogue with American Pragmatism Patricia Hill CollinsChapter 9. Pragmatism and Dreams of Justice: Between Radical Black Philosophy and Deweyan Democracy V. Denise JamesChapter 10. Contesting Injustice: Why Pragmatist Political Thought Needs Du Bois Colin KoopmanChapter 11. Pragmatism, Racial Injustice, and Epistemic Insurrection: Toward an Insurrectionist Pragmatism José MedinaChapter 12. An Aesthetics of Resistance: Deweyan Experimentalism and Epistemic Injustice Paul C. TaylorChapter 13. Setting Aside Hope: A Pragmatist Approach to Racial Justice Shannon Sullivan Part III: Pragmatism, Liberalism, and Democracy Chapter 14. Reconsidering Deweyan Democracy Hilary PutnamChapter 15. Dewey and the Problem of Justice Peter ManicasChapter 16. (What) Can Pragmatists Think About Justice? Pragmatism and Liberal Egalitarianism Robert B. TalisseChapter 17. A Pragmatist Account of Legitimacy and Authority: Holmes, Ramsey, and the Moral Force of Law Cheryl MisakChapter 18. William James on Justice and the Sacredness of Individuality David Rondel

Pragmatism and Justice, a multi-author volume, is conceptually organized and masterfully ordered, such that it reads less like a collection of disjointed essays and more like a philosophical chain novel, where each contribution picks up where the previous one left off... I recommend it to all philosophers interested in ethics, politics, or law, and those committed to resisting contemporary social injustice... this collection would work well in an upper level course on ethics and politics or as a supplement to primary works in a course on pragmatism, and I recommend it to anyone interested in theoretical reflections on justice and those aiming to resist contemporary injustices.