Pragmatism and Naturalism

Matthew Bagger teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Religious Experience, Justification, and History (1999) and The Uses of Paradox: Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd (Columbia, 2007).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatthew C. BaggerPart 1: The Classical Pragmatists and Naturalism1. Instinct and Inquiry: A Reconsideration of Peirce’s Mature Religious NaturalismMichael L. Raposa2. Religious Apologetic, Naturalism, and Inquiry in the Thought of William JamesMatthew C. Bagger3. Deweyan NaturalismPhilip KitcherPart 2: Pragmatism and the Study of Religion4. Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Genealogy in the Study of ReligionWayne Proudfoot5. Language, Method, and Pragmatism in the Study of ReligionScott DavisPart 3: Pragmatism and Democracy6. Reading Wayne Proudfoot’s Religious Experience: Naturalism and the Limits of Democratic DiscourseJonathon Kahn7. Public Reason and Dialectical PragmatismJeffrey StoutPart 4: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion8. The Fate of Radical Empiricism and the Future of Pragmatic NaturalismNancy Frankenberry9. Nonconceptualism and Religious Experience: Kant, Schleiermacher, ProudfootTerry F. Godlove10. The Oracle and the Inner Teacher: Piecemeal NaturalismJames WetzelContributorsIndex

This book is a stellar collection of many of the most brilliant and influential philosophers engaged with pragmatism and naturalism. The revival of pragmatism—after its emergence forty years ago—continues in new and nuanced ways as manifest in this gem of a text!