Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy

Scott F. Aikin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He works primarily on pragmatism, epistemology, and argumentation theory. He has written more than fifty scholarly essays, and he has authored two books: Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2011) and Evidentialism and the Will to Believe (2014). Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Political Science, and Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on pragmatism and contemporary political philosophy. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles, and several books, including Democracy and Moral Conflict (2009) and Engaging Political Philosophy (2016).

• Foreword Cheryl Misak1. Introduction: The Problems of Pragmatist PhilosophersPart I. Encounters with the Classical Idiom2. Peirce’s Mixed Theory of Epistemic Justification3. Fixing Belief as Epistemic Conduct4. Clifford’s Pragmatism and the Will to Believe5. James’s Moral Philosophy6. What is Living and What is Dead in Deweyan Political TheoryPart II. Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy7. Against Triumphalism: Defending Analytic Pragmatism8. Metaphilosophical Creep9. Pragmatist Metaphilosophy and SkepticismPart III. Pragmatist Proposals10. Can Pragmatist be Pluralists?11. The Ethics of Inquiry12. Global Expressivism: Is it Still Cool?13. On a Certain Blindness in Pragmatist Political Philosophy14. Public Argument in a Free Society15. Epilogue: Pragmatism as Minimalist Metaphilosophy