Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists

Brian G. Henning is professor of philosophy at Gonzaga University.William T. Myers is professor of philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College. Joseph D. John is a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

• 1 Is Whitehead a Pragmatist? On the Pragmatic Elements in Whitehead’s Metaphysics, William T. Myers2 Ultimate Good Sense: Whitehead’s Ontological Fallibilism, George Allan3 Whitehead’s Pragmatic Epistemology, Joseph D. John4 Prefiguring Whitehead: Reading Jamesian Pragmatism with Stengers and Latour, Steven Meyer5 Whitehead’s Speculative Contribution to Praxis: Praxis and American Philosophy, Thomas M. Jeannot6 Contingency All the Way Down: Whitehead Among the Pragmatists, Nancy Frankenberry7 Whitehead’s “Rescue” of American Anti-Intellectualism: The Question of Pragmatism, Scott Sinclair8 Surprise, Event, and the Problem of Novelty: A Comparison Between C. S. Peirce and A. N. Whitehead, Maria Regina Brioschi9 Creative Love: Eros and Agape in Peirce and Whitehead, Brian G. Henning10 DNA: A Process View, Michael Brady11 The Habit of Art: Whitehead, Aesthetics, and Pragmatism, Nicholas Gaskill12 A Pragmatic Interpretation of Whitehead’s Analysis of Religious Experience, Eleonora Mingarelli13 Transition, Transmutation, and Transfiguration: Notes for a Poetics of Experience, Vincent Colapietro14 Feeling Forming Forward: Ecstasis and Experience in Process-Pragmatic Perspective, Jude Jones

Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists counters the growing silence between Whiteheadian process philosophy and pragmatism, seeking to liberate both from self-imposed narrowness. The essays by fourteen scholars take on a range of probing topics and in so doing also expose the richness of ideas yet to be explored. Each essay opens up a conversation worth having. I hope this volume helps revive the speculative pulse in American philosophy.