The essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, ethics, aesthetics, experience, knowledge, rationality, metaphysics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.
Table of contents:
Foreword by Hans Joas
Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska
ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited
TOWARD DEMOCRACY
TWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey's Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life
THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey's Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy
FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas
FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction
SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism
SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy
ETHICS
EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational?
NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics
AESTHETICS
TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty
ELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy
TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?
THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics
SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE
FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey's and Helmuth Plessner's Approaches
FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana's Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object
SIXTEEN Emil VIŠNOVSKÝ: Dewey's Reconstruction of Rationality
SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint
EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas' Construction and Deconstruction of the World
NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu
FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey
TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism
TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track
TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Table of contents:
Foreword by Hans Joas
Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska
ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited
TOWARD DEMOCRACY
TWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey's Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life
THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey's Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy
FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas
FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction
SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism
SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy
ETHICS
EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational?
NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics
AESTHETICS
TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty
ELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy
TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?
THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics
SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE
FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey's and Helmuth Plessner's Approaches
FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana's Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object
SIXTEEN Emil VIŠNOVSKÝ: Dewey's Reconstruction of Rationality
SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint
EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas' Construction and Deconstruction of the World
NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu
FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey
TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism
TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track
TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place
About the Editors and Contributors
Index