The Pragmatic Turn

Preface. Prologue. 1. Charles S. Peirce's Critique of Cartesianism. 2. The Ethical Consequences of William James's PragmaticPluralism. 3. John Dewey's Vision of Radical Democracy. 4. Hegel and Pragmatism. 5. Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Truth. 6. Experience and the Linguistic Turn. 7. Hilary Putnam: The Entanglement of Fact and Value. 8. Jurgen Habermas's Kantian Pragmatism. 9. Richard Rorty's Deep Humanism. Bibliography.