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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Contributors | |
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Introduction: Classical American Philosophy | |
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Prologue | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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Introduction: "Emerson," a Memorial Address | |
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The American Scholar | |
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Self-Reliance | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Classical American Philosophy | |
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Charles Sanders Peirce | |
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Introduction | |
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Some Consequences of Four Incapacities | |
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The Fixation of Belief | |
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How to Make Our Ideas Clear | |
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The Doctrine of Necessity Examined | |
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The Categories and the Study of Signs | |
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What Pragmatism Is | |
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Issues of Pragmaticism | |
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A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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William James | |
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Introduction | |
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The Types of Philosophic Thinking | |
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The Stream of Thought | |
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A World of Pure Experience | |
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What Pragmatism Means | |
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The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life | |
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The Dilemma of Determinism | |
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The Will to Believe | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Josiah Royce | |
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Introduction | |
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The Temporal and the Eternal | |
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The Body and the Members | |
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The Will to Interpret | |
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Loyalty to Loyalty, Truth, and Reality | |
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Loyalty and Religion | |
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Provincialism | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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George Santayana | |
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Introduction | |
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The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy | |
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Some Meanings of the Word "Is" | |
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Scepticism | |
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Essence | |
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Substance | |
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Teleology and Psyche | |
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Hypostatic Ethics | |
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The Implied Being of Truth | |
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The Nature of Spirit | |
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Liberation | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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John Dewey | |
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Introduction | |
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The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy | |
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The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism | |
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Experience and Philosophic Method | |
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Existence as Preearious and Stable | |
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Nature, Communication and Meaning | |
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The Pattern of Inquiry | |
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Education as Growth | |
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The Lost Individual | |
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Search for The Great Community | |
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The Live Creature and Aesthetic Experience | |
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Faith and Its Object | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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George Herbert Mead | |
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Introduction | |
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The Vocal Gesture and the Significant Symbol | |
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Thought, Communication, and the Significant Symbol | |
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Meaning | |
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The Nature of Reflective Intelligence | |
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The Nature of Scientific Knowledge | |
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Play, the Game, and the Generalized Other | |
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The "I" and the "Me" | |
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The Philosophical Basis of Ethics | |
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Realism, Pragmatism, and Science | |
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The Present as the Locus of Reality | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Contexts | |
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Feminism and the Writings of American Women | |
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Introduction | |
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Jane Addams: Charitable Effort | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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American Idealism and Personalism | |
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Introduction | |
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Borden Parker Bowne: The Failure of Impersonalism | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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African-American Philosophy | |
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Introduction | |
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Alain Locke: The Ethics of Culture | |
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Alain Locke: Values and Imperatives | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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American Naturalism | |
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Introduction | |
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John Herman Randall, Jr.: Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |