Pragmatism Applied

Clifford S. Stagoll is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Michael P. Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. His books include Thinking through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies (coauthored with Damian Cox).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Pragmatism PragmaticClifford S. Stagoll and Michael P. LevinePart I. Issues: Putting James to Work 1. Listening to "the Cries of the Wounded": Jamesian Reflections on the Impasse over Gun ControlJames M. Albrecht2. Revisiting the Social Value of College BreedingLoren Goldman3. What Makes the Lives of Livestock Significant?Erin McKenna4. Significant Lives and Certain Blindness: William James and the Disability ParadoxNate Jackson5. Pragmatism and Progress: Has There Been Progress in Race Relations in the United States?Damian Cox and Michael P. LevinePart II. Theory: Clearing The Way 6. Applying Jamesian Pragmatism to Moral Life: Against "Applied Ethics"Sami Pihlström7. Understanding Experience with William JamesJohn Ryder8. James and the Minimal SelfYumiko InukaiPart III. Practice: Living with James 9. William James and the WoodsDouglas R. Anderson10. Taking James to Work: Pragmatism for ManagersClifford S. Stagoll11. Habits in a World of ChangeJames CampbellList of ContributorsIndexBibliographyIndex

"This book is the first sustained attempt to take James's call for a lived philosophy at face value, both exploring the extent of James's own philosophical project and furthering it in ever new directions. As is clear from the reading of the various contributions, we are given a taste of what Jamesian philosophy might or should achieve rather than merely presenting what it promises to deliver. And this is clearly novel and extremely intriguing." — Sarin Marchetti, author of Ethics and Philosophical Critique in William James